Hello All,

I just became a TextFugu member for life (w00t!) and am all excited to get started with season 2.

Problem is, right now I am stumped as to how to start learning the Radicals. Says at the very beginning of Season 2 (at the end of the section about learning how to form questions: http://www.textfugu.com/season-2/asking-questions/practice/) to learn the Radicals that are within the “1″, download the Anki deck, etc. All good.

Now, when I click on the three radicals in the category “1″, each is explained but also has a number of click-able kanji associated with them, each of which leads to a new web page, containing explanations, vocab, etc. No problem understanding the concept.

Now, in the “Before You Move on” portion of the practice page I am on, I am being told to be able to do the following: Know the meanings of approximately 50% of the 1 stroke radicals (and have gone through all of them). Keep studying them so you know 100% by the time you get to your first kanji chapter.

And that’s where I’m going “huh?”: Is Koichi referring to being able to simply know/recognize the three radicals of the “1″ category (or 50% thereof), or does it mean I am supposed to learn/know the three radicals, and approx. 50% of *all* of the kanji they are used in, and the vocab associated with each?

If it is the latter, are there any learning aids anywhere that I missed (worksheets, lists, more Anki decks, etc.), or are we “on our own” creating study aids to help us learn better?

Does what I am trying to ask make any sense? If not, German-native me using English to try to learn Japanese will try to re-phrase :)

Thank you all in advance for you kind help,

–Silke (Arkascha)