How I Use Remembering The Kanji To NEVER Study Kanji Readings Again!! 

absolutely! i've started learning japanese a few months ago, and i remember seeing the word 外国人 and my brain was like "outside country person? well sounds like a foreigner" and it was so rewarding for some reason

You look a little like Quentin Tarantino

Love this video. For context, I'm in the middle of learning Japanese. I just got back from my first trip there and it took me about 5 months to get where I am. I have "memorized" 1360 kanji (no readings just the meanings of the characters) and this dude is 100% correct. You can ballpark all of the kanji and get a general meaning. The BEST part about the individual Kanji is that, if you know some of the radicals, you can ballpark THEIR meaning and guess the meaning before you even study! I can't suggest the app Kanji Study enough. It helped me get where I am (currently studying N2 - N1 level Kanji). Please stick with it! The language is beautiful, the country even more so. Keep practicing no matter how many walls you hit and you will be speaking and reading Japanese in no time.

Loved that "copy, pasta"~

This is the video that convinced me to try out RTK, and after 5 months, I finally finished it today! Alongside my class that goes through Genki, RTK has made reading comprehension so much easier for me. Thank you so much for recommending it!

Chad, I love your shirt, man. Awesome videos. Great stuff

I do Anki core 2000 vocabulary and they do not have hiragana over the Kanji. So I am forced to learn it. But it is getting harder the further I get into the lessons. Now I printed out 1st grade Kanji and doing it like the 1st graders in Japan learned. It is helping me with Anki's lessons. And since I've been exposed to many Kanjis through Anki it is helping me with my Kanji study. I need both. I personally learn more if I write things down.

I learn Kanji with music mainly. And rote memory. Im so used to hearing Japanese once I study a Kanji and learn it it usually sticks or clicks. Basically I take a song I have listened to over and over for years now. Look up the lyrics and I learn both vocab and Kanji in one go by using anki and making flashcards for those Kanji in the song lyrics. I then open up a blank doc in open office/msword and as I am doing the flashcards for the Kanji, I type the romaji form and hiragana form. I.E. lets say 3 of the 20 words in kanji for one part of a song are: 扉、迷宮、楽園 . Once I see it on anki, first I do romaji form, then hiragana. So until I feel I remember it, my doc will look something like this: Part 1: tobira, mei-kyuu,ra-kuen, ra-kuen, ra-kuen, mei-kyuu, tobira, mei-kyuu... (me repeating certain ones means I havent felt confident in remembering it yet) Part 2: とびら、めい・きゅう、ら・くえん、とびら、......etc Basically like you said before in your vids. Just learning something from reading it doesnt really stick unless you execute it cognitively too. Think of two roads when learning Kanji, one is incoming, you reading it, and one is outgoing, you USING it. This method helps me remember it because I both read and learn it, and use it myself. I also sometimes put it in katakana form or make ghetto sentences with the kanji im learning that way too to help make it stick. Even if they dont make sense, the point is that you're using what you learn. And that's how I learn my kanji. RTK really helps you learn radicals and readings and familiarity with Kanji. But tbh I didnt like it very much. Especially since in the latter half of those books he just has you connect them yourself anyways. Like i.e I didnt need to read all those to learn to connect stuff like 魔女(ma-jo) means witch, and thats because it uses ma魔 for like, magic and 女 for women. women + magic is.... a witch. Makes sense. However knowing kanji readings is only a small part of learning to READ Kanji and Japanese imo. So to me, learning vocabulary is much more prominent than just learning or remembering kanji meanings. Thus I prefer a vocabulary method of learning Kanji. And as you learn vocab, i.e; you learn that kuroi(黒い) is black and that 黒 can read KURO . But if you learn the word 黒板; kokuban(blackboard) you also learn that 黒 can also be read as KOKU. Learning through vocab teaches you words and kanji readings, much better than just grinding Kanji and meanings. In my opinion. Glad I found this channel. You have intuitive vids. I want to be able to pass N2 in a yearish so I can apply to college and stuff over there so... just thought Id share my method and hope it helps someone.

Yeah, I did Heisig's Vol1 and reckon it's like priming a wall before you paint it. Now, about a year and half later, I've using a combination of Wanikani and reading Star Wars books in Japanese. The great thing about reading Star Wars (for me) is that I know exactly what's happening the whole time (I think linguists probably call that "a schema") ... and with the furigana by the kanji, I'm quickly using inference to get those "aaaahhh ... I see how that works" moments :-) In answer to your question about how long I've been going at the kanji ... it's now 18 months since I started - and I know the readings to about a thousand kanji, three and half thousand vocabulary words. I'm pretty happy with that - especially as I'm learning shodou and taking the kanken tests along the way. I reckon I'll be able to read newspapers in just over a year.

When you said breed and place I honestly thought it was going to be brothel.

Dude, your explanation of the Koneko Kanji made a hell of a lot of sense. I have the Heisig book, but yet to make a good start on it. Your explanation definitely made sense. :)

Hi!:> Great vid man, I was just thinking about this today ahaha. I had a question though: I read something today where someone actually suggested ( It mightve been Heisig himself I cant remember ) NOT rewriting kanji over and over again to help supplement your RTK memorization. They suggested to instead use flash cards to drill them in. From your experience, which did u prefer?

I didn't know that Quentin Tarantino make video on RU-vid...

Awesome video! Thanks a lot! I got myself the pdf as per your previous video Random question: Do you speak (or have you tried to learn) any other language?

I haven't been studying for too long. I've stuck to textbooks and a workbook and it helps me. I have a textbook that's specifically for grammar which is super nice. And of course, I use Heisig's. And also, that discord call would be pretty lit.

It sounds like Remembering the Kanji helps learners with nearly the equivalent on greek/latin root words for English (and similar languages). I'll eventually pick up the book. Probably this summer after schools out. The way I have studied was to dive into the deep end. I set up my anki deck to have cards with only the kanji reading, and the answer with furigana on the back side. I found I had to lower the amount of new cards daily over the default, and it takes me longer to learn vocabulary than my peers, but i am far beyond them in kanji reading ability. I have found that learning the kanji with the words is very tough, but i actually learn the words vs just cramming enough for a test. I also have been starting to decipher the nuance on how the kanji reading change based on the context and how their paired with other Kanji. I would recommend my method to those who really want to learn Kanji, but i also know it would be too much for some people (particularly non visual learners) and could cause unnecessary frustration if you can't move at your own pace (such as in a school environment).

Nice video, I guess I'll give manga a shot.

i'm in health care and while studying medical terminology, it is so much easier to learn medical terminology in Japanese than in English, for just the reasons you mentioned. Like 糖尿病 for diabetes. Sugar-urine-disease. How simple is that.

4:34 Yes I also eat pasta whilst studying kanji

ラーメン = ramen ?

I'm so confused about the beggining. Why did you chefs kiss at 戦争 written in red paint lmao.

Sounds so simple in theory!

found this video while im searching method for remembering kanji. there are many ways haha i got confused. Maybe for a while i use my own ways. Learning from texbooks and kanji no jisho. Ganbarimasssuu

Hi there, great video. I am a 45 year old Australian and I am going to Japan next year and study for a year. I lived there over 20 years ago for 2 years but did not really learn much Japanese at all! Can you tell me where I can get Japanese shows, manga with Japanese subtitles? Very hard to find...

What’s the best way to actually lear the readings of the kanji in rtk?

3:33 studying with "Harvest moon" taught me that one just the other day

I just downloaded the pdf version of this.. may get the book if I stick to it. Also got the memrise deck as well. The only issue is It doesn't tell you the on yomi or kun yomi... So I'm a bit up in the air about this.. I thought of getting wanikani as well for this. But I looked at an app called Obenkyo and it's got both. And it's free. However. I'll see how I go with finishing RTK. Then I'll see if I can remember them.. Kanji so hard to remember.

I'm gonna use RTK to start recognizing kanji with meanings but when it comes to being able to pronounce the readings and know the actual meaning for sure, things are a bit more confusing to me.

you should do a video on your method of word/hiragana learning because I'm having a much rougher time then kanji. After my quizes I forget like all of the vocabulary.

I'm using Wanikani to learn kanji. When reading text in the first couple lessons in Genki I don't know most of the kanji's meaning or reading, but over time I remember how they look. I'm just unsure whether or not Wanikani is worth 10$/month...

Someone else who loves Japan and BSG!

Using RTK and im on kanji 1994. So close to done. Part 2 is next:D

I tried to learn Japanese with Duolingo. Hiragana was a breeze with it, Katakana also wan't too difficult. But learning Kanji with that app is a real chore. As I am just interested in the language and Duolingo was the easiest way to start, I startedt learning. But I stopped as soon as a lot of Kanji started to appear and now I am just happy when I watch a video about Japan and can read some text that appears in the background somewhere.

Taking Elementary I Japanese next Fall so I'm nowhere near even starting to learn Kanji. 😅

I don't know exactly how I learn kanji. Somehow I learned a lot of basic kanji within 2 days. I think I'm a visual learner. It's strange but I sometimes see kana in my head when I speak Japanese. Weird, right?

Have you heard of AJATT?

どれくらい漢字を覚えているんですか？ヘイシングメソッドはいいですか？日本語話しているビデオある？

When you say watch anime with Japanese subtitles on.. Do you mean raw anime with Japanese subs or English dubbed anime with Japanese subs?

not even gonna question the intro

Kanji, hiragana, katakana, I'm a Japanese who recently realized that it's a troublesome language.

me when 大学 cause i was like "so, big study? what does that mea- UNIVERSITY"

You look like a young tarantino hahaha

5:20 can u tell us what book ?

Why does this dude look like the forgotten Jonas Brother

Nice idea to help people learning kanji. I myself always found actually learning them by book way faster, but then again, that's just me ^^ I should note (although I'm sure others already did as it's obvious) - you mispronounce "cat": It's pronounced "ne-ko" (same pace for all syllables). Your pronunciation would be true if it were written ねっこ (nekko), but of course correct is ねこ. Important since ねっこ means "tree stump" (or in some cases -root).

w8, Didn't i reccomend to you Yotsubato? i have a feeling i did.

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if ur gonna make a video about kanji can u pls pronounce it correctly and not like the chinese porridge

I've been trying to read the first Yotsuba and so far she seems like the world's biggest brat which she can't be blamed for as her father seems like the most careless parent. Perhaps it's a cultural thing, perhaps that kind of behaviour is 'cute' in Japan? Also as a beginner I am struggling with the very informal language. Soldiering on however.

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Before I watch the video: this guy looks exactly like Christian Nielsen.

"When you are an 11 year old learning japanese for technically no reason."😂

Yeah definitly the best way to learn kanji. I don't get all these people who are learning all the readings for each kanji and telling anyone else about it and that it's the right way. You learned it in the hard way, yeah fine your problem, but don't try to force everyone else to do a hard long taking way. Step 1: Learn Kanji through remembering the kanji Step 2: learn japanese vocabulary and use of these kanji within context Step 3: Profit! No ??? Step, just Profit. Learning the readings is just a big waste of time. Of course you can get good with this way, but it will take waaaay longer and is frustrating xd