/jp/ - Otaku Culture

http://www.guidetojapanese.org
http://www.jisho.org/
http://www.yamasa.cc/members/ocjs/kanjidic.nsf/SearchKanji3?OpenForm
http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/about

learn all the kanji ever if you ever hope to be literate

>>3828467

AJATT is quite great. I was experimenting with methods for months before I realized that his style is exactly what I was moving towards. Another site that may be useful is: smart.fm

>>3828467
>>3828491
thanks.
>>3828472
I thought kanji was just for writing?

>>3828458
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>>3828504
didn't it occur to you that stuff which gets written is meant to be read?

What's your goal? What do you want to be able to read?

>>3828516
Oh, right.

Quick question before i HAVE TO head off to bed, since its 2 AM here, is most manga\general weeaboo shit in kanji?
Since lets face it, that IS what i'll be using it for, mostly.

>>3828521

All but the absolute simplest stuff for little kids. Most teenager-level stuff has the hiragana pronunciation written above or to the side of the kanji, though.

>>3828521

Yes. You have to learn kanji if you want to read anything. Shounen manga has furigana, so you'll have some help early on...but VNs, Seinen manga, novels, video games...all kanji.

>>3828521
If you get any manga, get one published in a shounen or shoujo magazine. Those will always have furigana next to the kanji for you to read.

Most games just use kanji without furigana unfortunately. There's the Pokemon games, which are completely in hiragana/katakana, but it's honestly annoying to read.

Not OP, but I was told there is a DS vidya that teaches japanese kids how to read and stuff. Can I get the title?

>>3828521
manga for all ages have furigana (hirgana over the kanji that tell you how they're read).
Manga for older audiences and VNs do not, in general.

Either way you should be prepared to learn some 600-800 kanji if you want to be able to read anything close to fluently. If you enjoy learning kanji you can go on and do all 2000 jouyou and then some, if you don't you'll get by using an electronic dictionary.

http://www.hellodamage.com/kanjidicks/main.htm

Get grinding.

>>3828546

>Kanji dicks

>>3828537
I don't think furigana are useful for non-japanese learners, except that they make it easier to look up the word. For me, if I know a word, I can almost always read its kanji. I don't know the furigana words to begin with. That is, I think, how it should be if you start learning kanji early on in your studying.

So basically: read heisig until you get the hang of mnemonic learning, so you can use that to memorize kanji. Then, try to have your kanji ability keep pace with your vocabulary.

fuck japan