A bit confused about what I should be focusing on at my very very beginner level of Japenese in regards to Kanji. Easily grinded through katakana/hirigana and have about 250 words under my belt and basic grammar, but at a loss with Kanji, feel like I'm crawling along. With meanings and different pronunciations, it's like triple the effort for me to learn a single Kanji. I cant imaging learning thousands over the the coming years. More like decades lol
Do I need to memorize the kunyomi and onyomi for Kanji. Like am I wasting time trying to remember kunyomi and onyomi and meaning for each, or should I just focus on meaning of the Kanji?
Would appreciate recs or insight into how to get started or simplify the learning process there. I feel like at present I can only manage 2 a day and have to pause a few days at a time and review the few that I know as I'm easily mixing up different kunyomi and onyomi with each other.
Okay, so I just read the pinned post on this and at least feel a little validated in my drop off in learning, but would still appreciate if any of you would be open to sharing what you tried.
Two kanji a day is the same pace that I use. Don’t worry, it adds up faster than you might think.
There are many different approaches to studying kanji, but no one best approach for all people. At this point in your studies, it seems to work well to just learn them organically. Once you are comfortable with the basics, you can decide if a systematic approach is right for you.
Personally, I focus on on’yomi. The bulk of my study time is devoted to understanding which kanji have which on’yomi and why, but I didn’t settle on this approach until I already had several hundred characters under my belt, so it probably isn’t that useful to you.
