/jp/ - Otaku Culture

It's called putting in effort.

Nope. Either need effort or money to buy study materials.

I like the Heisig books for both kanji and kana, although they work better for kanji than kana, but kana are really not that hard.

Also, use a SRS program like Anki to review.

There are no shortcuts, though. It takes lots of work no matter how you do it, although with the Heisig method, you can learn the characters and meanings in just a few months if you make a full-time job out of it.

>>6794208
Fuck that.

I happen to know of a place where you can learn kana(all 3: Katakana, Hiragana, & Kanji). But Why don't you do the above stated and put in some goddamn effort and find all the materials you need online yourself? Why should I tell you? I know why I should not and that is because you lack the will to follow through anyways. I know this because you are asking here rather than just doing something about it. Convince me.

kanji is a whole nother beast altogether, but I sharpened my kana reading by playing the Japanese version of various GBA Castlevania games in VirtualBoy (names of items/enemies pop up constantly, not to mention menu navigation). Not the fastest way, but it sure didn't feel like studying.

just as immersion is the best way to learn to speak a language, it works as well to learn to read it. Just find a children's picture book and start flipping through it, inspecting each character as you go. As you get through it, you will learn the meaning of characters from context.

>>6794383
I only asked for oppions, I already got my ways to learn it I just want to know if theres a fast and better way that maybe I dont know, that was all.
But I see people here dont like to help huh

>>6794395
I think I know what you mean.
You see I never studied english or anything, I learned from playing rpgs and stuff where I needed to translate all the stuff.
I still need to find a good site where I can use to translate the kanji/katakana/hiragana from the japanese games I play, if anyone have a good one please gimme!

>>6794383
I just asked for opnions, I already got my ways to learn it I just want to know if theres a fast and better way that maybe I dont know, that was all.
But I see people here dont like to help huh

>>6794395
I think I know what you mean.
You see I never studied english or anything, I learned from playing rpgs and games that I needed to translate all the stuff.
I still need to find a good site where I can use to translate the kanji/katakana/hiragana from the japanese games I play, if anyone have a good one please gimme!

/jp/ doesn't know Japanese. Go to /lang/.

>>6795053
Man up and learn Hiragana/Katakana from charts.
Install Rikai-chan.
Install Japanese IME.
Use the writing pad to draw whatever kanji you come across.
If that fails, use
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1R
by selecting components of the kanji and optionally, the number of strokes.

Also, /jp/ isn't for learning Japanese.
>>>/lang/