We’re trying to figure out the best way to get there from the train stations! It goes on for the weekend I think but I don’t live in London, I’d have to spend a fair bit of money to get a hotel there, but since we are likely going to be a couple soon I might ask if I can stay with her and her friends. I think she’s wearing a kimono, I’m wearing…jeans and a t-shirt. Haha.

Hmm, I use radicals and then if a kanji is made up of 3 radicals I just make up some sort of association between the three, based on the positioning of each radical. I always try to keep it brief because the longer the story the more time I have to spend and even after that I usually forget the story.

I hope this doesn’t come back to bite me in the ass. I’ve started taking RTK seriously in the last 2 weeks or so and I’m ~700/2200 kanji in the book, so far my reviews are going really well.

Edit: 堆 <– for this I use "The turkeys are piled too damn high! (on the soil)"

• This reply was modified 12 years, 11 months ago by  Luke.
• This reply was modified 12 years, 11 months ago by  Luke.

It should be 29 days left, I don’t pay monthly anymore but I remember signing up in the middle of August and I’m pretty sure I was being charged every 30 days on Paypal, not at the start of every month.

I’m not annoyed about I was just making an observation that a lot of posts seem to be vanishing into other threads and bringing them back from the dead, thought that was possibly the case here too.

I am learning the meaning of the Joyo kanji through Remembering the Kanji then I’ll learn the on’yomi readings on Read the Kanji, Read the Kanji focuses on compounds and that is where on’yomi usually is used the most, for the kun’yomi I can just learn those through vocab lists because the kun’yomi reading is just how it would be written in hiragana/katakana, with some exceptions with stuff like 楽しい、楽しみ – they are the same until the last character.

There’s exceptions in all of this but I didn’t like having to learn the on’yomi and kun’yomi at the same time, didn’t really see the point. So I don’t use this site for kanji anymore. You just have to remember there are always exceptions but for the most part my way of handling it is working fine.

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I like Rikaisama for having pronunciations, I don’t know if Perapera does that.

http://www.readthekanji.com is a really good website, but once you’ve used it for a while it starts to focus on compound kanji instead of teaching single kanji which is problematic I thought. So I’ve stopped using the website until I have a good grip of the kanji meanings on their own, for that I am using the book Remembering the Kanji which is okay, it works, I think it’s pretty boring but it seems to be one of the best options.

Both of the above use the Joyo kanji list so you are looking at around ~2136 to get through in total, I think Read the Kanji is going to be really useful when I finish this book, it’s also great for learning vocab and reading sentences.

I don’t think it’s worth doing the kanji sections on this website, I stopped doing them a while ago because there’s much better resources out there I think.

You are right though, they did feel a bit disjointed at times and I rarely saw any of the kanji being used in lessons.