Remembering the Kanji I
by James W. Heisig, Tanya Sienko · first published 1985
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Have you tried using Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji"? I have never tried to learn Japanese, but I have heard very good things about using this book to learn the Kanji.
on “Language Learning is Broken” ↗Of course there are exceptions, but a remarkable number of kanji share their on-yomi based on a common component. James Heisig's Remembering the Kanji I gives you the tools to write the kanji and assign an english meaning to it (same manner as suggesting that grass that makes you feel better is medicine), with volume II showing the readings in common.…
on “Hacking the Japanese Proficiency Test: How to Dissect Kanji” ↗…with the correct stroke order. 1. It makes them much easier to remember. This is important when there's thousands of them. If you want to know a bit more about this, read the introduction to Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji". I learned 3000 of them in about 3-4 months, and primitives/stroke order were essential to achieving this. 2. when reading kanji that were written with a brush (or even writing them quickly with a pen),…
on “Japanese rules for writing your ABCs are surprisingly strict” ↗Have you looked at "Remembering the Kanji"? I was skeptical when reading "Remebering the Kana", but halfway through it I found that despite the silliness, it worked. I tried the Kanji book for a bit and was fairly surprised how well it was working.
on “A Year of Spaced Repetition Software in the Classroom” ↗Remembering the Kanji I: http://www.amazon.com/Remembering-Kanji-Complete-Japanese-Ch... Remembering Traditional Hanzi: Book 1: http://www.amazon.com/Remembering-Traditional-Hanzi-Meaning-... Remembering Simplified Hanzi:…
on “Wired youth forget how to write in China and Japan” ↗I've studied Japanese in my free time since high school, on-and-off, starting with Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji". I'm curious to know what has been the biggest challenges others have run into trying to learn Japanese. And have you tried paying for tutors, premium services, etc. or do you exclusively use only free online…
on “Ask HN: Best Way to Learn Japanese” ↗I did that as well. That deck is basically (with a few differences) an Anki version of Helsig's "Remembering the Kanji". I started with the book, and continued with the Nihongo Shark Anki deck later. The system works incredibly well for the first few hundred Kanji at least, after that it gets harder and harder to come up…
on “Japanese typography: Kilograms of sinograms” ↗Thumbs up for revising the keywords of remembering the kanji. I don’t follow his book but I do refer to it when studying and sometimes his keywords really can be far out. If I remember correctly he never clarifies if the kanji for “can” is “can do” or “can of soup”.
on “Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell” ↗