/jp/ - Otaku Culture

RTK + koohii + vocab is the god tier way to do it. Allow me to explain but before I fucking do, make sure you have a good grasp on hiragana, katakana and the basic grammar rules of the language. Alright, time to fuckin explain:

RTK by heiseg teaches you how to remember the kanji by doing little short stories or "mnemonics" and associate the kanji for it.

With the addition of learning the radials or primatives, which are essentially the building blocks of kanji. This will help you further break them down for you and make it piss easy to remember them, and combining this with mnemonics is an effective method for remembering them. It's important to reinforce this with the anki kanji deck + radical deck. however you won't actually learn how to "read" the kanji.

That's where koohii comes in. It's basically heisegs method but it teaches you the reading and meaning of the kanji and also provides further reinforcement as well as learning vocabulary that contain the kanji and reading. This will help you make educated guess on how the word is read if the same kanji appears in words you might see often which brings me to my important point.

You suppliment the koohii method along with reading native material. Start out basic and build your way up.

Look up vocabulary that are new to you and what they mean. As you see words that include the kanji that you come across more often when you read; the easier it will be to guess the reading of new words that include the kanji that you recognise. This will also make guessing what the word means based on the meaning of the kanji within the word easier as well.
Make sure to learn how the words are used in context within the sentences that might contain a specific situation for it. You should engage in the material you find interesting only in Japanese to keep you engaged.

If you wanna apply what you learned depending is to speak it. You want to put that knowledge into good use!

You might come across a problem where you translate words in English and then to Japanese which is a common problem but you can get yourself out of the habit with time. This is where a monolingual dictionary comes in which is pretty self explanatory combined with describijg daily situations in your life only in Japanese within your mind just to train and condition yourself into thinking in japanese.

Be consistent because that shit is super important. One final note is that making mistakes is completely fine and don't be afraid of making them. Receiving corrections is a sure fire way to learn fast.

Good luck! I know all of you faggots can learn Japanese and kanji! I believe you can do it. No, I know you fucking can because you gotta believe you can achieve this goal.