Kanji - Am I wasting my time with this method?

[jonnyjw_509078]

Hi everyone,

I'm new here.

I have recently been studying Kanji however only some of the english translated meanings for them.

Remembering their meaning isn't too difficult as I use memoric tricks with the primitve elements.

My question would be would you strongly advise to also learn the Japanese word for them? As from a website the guy said a good way to learn is to only study their english meaning then when I come to reading japanese txt I can transalte the english meaning and find out the correct Japanese word for the meaning (or in many cases meanings) for the specific symbol.

[adelholtz_499460]

you should probably read this: http://www.japanesepod101.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=7527&p=41923#p41923

and this article: http://www.guidetojapanese.org/blog/2014/06/23/you-cant-learn-kanji/
sums up pretty much the way i see it.

[community.japanese]

san,
konnichiwa.
Thank you for helping san.

　さん、
konnichiwa.
If you still have a problem with kanji, please let us know.

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