The Ultimate Guide to Learning Kanji 

Misa Ive been a fan of yours for a long time and my name is Christian Moore. But ive always wanted to be able to write it in kanji but didnt know the right characters to use and I didnt know how so I was wondering if you could help me. Know what that name would be in Kanji I would really appreciate it.

Thank you for your recommendation. It's very useful for me 😍

thank you for your recommendation, sensei, I love your videos and your channels so much. I hope that you could make more video like this

Thank you Misa^^

thanks so much

Well said! Keep at it. I've been learning for 3 years now with a wonderful iTalki 先生。And Misa has always been my number 1 most inspirational and professional online RU-vid 先生。I'm sure my interest in 日本語 would have waned and stopped long ago had it not been for her wonderful videos. So, many thanks Misa! I will stick with my adventures in Japanese, despite the fact I'm inevitably about to flump my JLPT N4 exam for the second time this Sunday! 😅🤣 *** Note to self : watch even MORE JapaneseAmmo videos! ***

I learned them individually with the meaning and one reading. Introducing them and then reviewing the flash cards around 150 at a time you can do 10 reviews or as many as you like the meaning sticks with a extremely small amount of effort you just are able to recall the meaning like magic after some time making it a lot easier to attempt to read new words and understanding them before even learning them making watching RU-vid a lot more enjoyable because even if you don’t understand the sentence you can still pick out some meaning and it’s more engaging and memorable to study.

I meant flash cards and spaced repetition and speed reviews to run through a large amount of them quickly and multiple times.

"Trying to individually learn kanji meanings and readings is a quick way to insanity or stroke!" so true man i was overwhelmed one time i was trying to learn kanji meanings but this helped me so yeah thx Misa-san

@@AidanMcdonald-cf6rv You learned all meaning and reading plus stokes.

I think everyone even Japanese people are still learning kanji

I think stroke orders are pointless. We live in a digital society and most of us type on a phone or computer day to day. As long as you know what a kanji means and looks like when you type in the word you’re fine. And if you do wanna learn to write kanji, then just write it. My kanji look exactly how they should and I don’t pay attention to everyone try stroke order. As long as the end result is the same, it doesn’t matter. Most people aren’t gonna get into Japanese calligraphy

@@FransceneJK98 You're right, not everyone will get into Japanese calligraphy, and I'm personally not interested in it. Actually, stroke order wasn't devised solely for calligraphy. In Japan, teachers and calligraphy masters had arguments while trying to establish a correct stroke order, as their perspectives differed. Additionally, the guidance that settled the stroke order and now serves de facto as a norm is relatively new (it was published in 1957). It was intended to provide a step-by-step method for writing kanji and to ensure consistent visual results regardless of who is writing. Does that mean nobody would be able to read what you wrote if you haven't followed the correct stroke order? Of course not! I'm sure you learned at school a way to write every letter of the alphabet that you don't follow anymore (when you have the opportunity to write by hand, that is).Paying attention to the structure of a kanji (following the correct stroke order will generally allow you to do that) while handwriting it both enhances your level of engagement and trains your procedural memory. Also, when I refer to writing by hand, I don't mean writing pages and pages of the same isolated kanji with or without all its various readings. I did this when I started to learn Japanese, and it didn't work for me. What I mean is writing complete words encountered while reading Japanese content, along with their contextual reading and meaning, 2 or 3 times. This way, you will train your brain to recognize and understand these specific words more quickly, enhancing the fluency of your reading. That being said, if you already know all the jōyō kanji and the vocabulary based on these kanji, handwriting for reasons other than enjoyment probably won't improve things significantly.

Exactly what helped me 👍

I think that actually knowing the proper stroke order helps with recognizing kanji in different fonts... well, if they're weighted. If it's some weird geometric ones, then that doesn't help lol (I played a game and all the characters were, like, square-y??? big ew!). But for weighted fonts, you can see how the strokes went and if you know the stroke order, you can "translate" it to a normal font, if that makes sense.

I am a native English speaker and I have never realized that lol, that's cool

ありがとうございます ;-;

Yes, your video on kanji is very timely and much appreciated. Thanks Misa sensei! 😊

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I would think you could omit the 私, often when describing something as "liked" or "loved" it's implied that you're describing your own feelings. I could be wrong tho

I think Heisig is kinda bad acually but if it helped you then that's good🙃

@@matzekatze7500 it may be relatively bad if you have good visual memory and can learn faster without mnemonics. That's certainly not my case. Without Heisig, I would still be stressed out about the N5 kanjis and mix up "tree", "person" and "big" :D

@@matzekatze7500 what is your experience with Heisig, what drawbacks did you notice?

@@ganqqwerty I personally just don't like the concept of learnign mnemocis that oftentimes have nothing to do with the actual meaning of the Kanji. I rather just learn words.

@@matzekatze7500 well, you're saying that because you're capable of doing that in a reasonable time without getting pissed off. If I see a word that consists of two or more kanji I don't know, there is no way I learn it without some mnemonic tricks... well maybe I will learn it, but it will take too much time and I will end up hating everybody.