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James W. Heisig's kanji-learning series: Remembering the Kanji, popularly referred to as just RTK is one of the first resources of its kind. These books take a very structured and systematic way for learning kanji by breaking down kanji into their component parts and helping you memorize kanji with stories (aka mnemonics).

Book 1

The first volume of the RTK series is A Complete Course on How Not to Forget the Meaning and Writing of Japanese Characters. It has a reputation as the quickest way of memorizing 2,200 kanji, it's the most popular volume in the series. However, it focuses on the meanings of kanji exclusively, so you'll learn them in isolation from reading or vocabulary.

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Book 2

The second volume is called A Systematic Guide to Reading Japanese Characters. It covers the readings of the kanji you've learned in the first volume. Kanji are organized and grouped according to patterns in pronunciation. For example, some kanji components represent a sound, which can be a clue to guess how to read kanji characters when you see the component in them. However, this book does not offer as much to help you "remember" as the first volume did with the stories, which many learners find effective about RTK.

Book 3

The third volume, Writing and Reading Japanese Characters for Upper-Level Proficiency is essentially an extension of the 2,200 characters taught previously in the series. It includes additional 800 kanji that are used in names, or technical terms. Similar to how the rest of the series is organized, the third volume first teaches meanings and then follows up with readings.

The RTK series is one of the most well-known kanji learning resources still today, but each volume has a strict focus that is not necessarily immediately practical. If you are thinking about purchasing any of the books, be aware of what it offers, and what you'll actually get out of it first. Read the Best Kanji Learning Programs article for a more in-depth review and comparisons with other kanji learning programs.

That is actually why I stopped Heisig immediately and decided just to continue with my only using native materials approach to learning Japanese. I might learn kanji at a slower rate than Heisig-ers but I also have avoided the English dependence. Just need to get that kanji. :P

Most computerized dictionaries, including kanjidic andrikaichan, contain Heisigframe numbers, so once you find a kanji in those dictionaries, you can findthe associated frame in your copy of Remembering the Kanji withoutthis index file.

Trust me. My mind was starting to go numb at times sitting in front of kanji flashcards for hours making me question if learning just the English meaning is even going to help. But I realized that even though it is super boring, it is one of the most effective ways to exponentially increase your Japanese reading and vocabulary comprehension (especially for beginners and intermediates like us.)

But think about it like this. I was able to memorize ~880 kanji in 14 days rather than studying 50 new kanji per day and only remembering 90% of them (630 kanji) PLUS I was able to create meaningful connections for the rest of the kanji.

But if you are a normal person who has a job and responsibilities then you may not be able to do my exact method. So I would recommend you just carving out an hour a day to do the same stuff and you will get almost the same benefits. You may be learning less kanji at once, but you will be creating stronger stories for each kanji you encounter.

Learning 2,200 kanji is going to be difficult whether it takes you 2 weeks like me or multiple months. And two of the major obstacles you are going to do is the sheer amount of time it takes and your motivation suddenly disappearing.

Do you really want to start reading Japanese as fast as possible even though this is an incredibly boring way? Or did you maybe want to wait a little bit later and just start learning kanji through mere exposure to gain some motivation? Or do both at the same time?

And what we want to do is use all of these to help you remember kanji as efficiently as possible. We want to both create exciting stories and see how it is being used so that we can place all of these kanji meanings into your long term memory.

And the best part is you can use brussel sprout as an image to memorize kanjis where they use the specific radical with different characters and all you have to do is just make different stories based around brussel sprouts!

You want to put in as many of your own experiences into these stories as you can so you can link this kanji with a powerful memory already in your head. What this does is exponentially increase the chances of this kanji sticking into your brain.

If you are making a story about riding on a cruise ship, try and use a cruise ship you rode on before. Or if the story has a dog radical (which a lot of kanji has) try and use a dog that you have seen before.

If you are already having trouble remembering the kanji with your story, it may be because your story sucks. This means you might have to completely recreate the entire story for something which has more personal connections or more emotion.

But I realized after a couple of hours in without any breaks and I just felt like exhausted. And at one point it just felt like I was just only looking at the kanji instead of actually creating stories.

At around day 13 I just wanted to finish all the kanji so that I can just start reviewing them already. This was at the point I was almost done with all of the kanji and I just started making quick, crappy stories just to stick it into my short term memory which made forget all about it the next day.

Mate, kudos for being so consistent! That is really impressive.

Also thanks for your thoughts on the kanji learning order. That explains a lot !

Especially when seeing and not seeing some some furigana while reading light novels.

Writing the kanji is what took most time. A lot of that answer time is me sitting down with the app open but not doing anything (doing other work). Remembering all the readings and writing each kanji 10 times was probably closer to a minute.

I am wondering, did you stop reviewing/adding vocab cards or do less immersion during this time? Because, if you stack reviewing and learning vocab and doing reading and listening immersion on top of that 2.5 hours of writing kanji it must have been a lot of time each day, right?

Completing RTK vol. 1 is not the end or even the middle of your kanji-learning experience (unless of course, like me, you were already middle-ish in your kanji-learning journey). It is the beginning: it serves as an excellent foundation (but only the foundation) for proceeding to learn real meanings and pronunciations in a variety of contexts, which is something you can only really get by reading plenty of material.

But I think Heisig works so well precisely because the first volume completely ignores pronunciation, and focuses on meaning (or at any rate, a caricature of one of its meanings) and writing, which gives you a more manageable chunk of information to learn. Its chief downside is probably that you have to learn all ~2,000 characters before you can proceed to actually start using the information you learned; but the upside is that learning kanji is actually pretty fun, and empowering.

My advise to anyone considering using this book who is in the very early stages of their study would be to try the first few hundred kanji using free materals, time it out and then come up with a realistic calculation of how long the whole process will probably take for them, before investing in a purchase. The end goal is to think in Japanese. Therefore all these English meanings for Kanji and all the mental framework of stories built up to assist your memorisation of them must ultimately be discarded.

I am half-way through the second volume and I am loving it. In my opinion, the RTK books are my most important tools for studying Japanese. After about 2-3 years of study I stopped most of everything and just pushed through RTK volume one starting at the beginning of a summer break from school. I saw my classmates get ahead of me in terms of being able to read out loud (knowing the pronunciations) but I began to surpass them in reading comprehension since I started to know all the meanings. Now that I am half way through the second volume, everything is starting to come together and I am really starting to get good results. I have passed JLPT N5, N4, and N3 in consecutive years during all of this and I am currently awaiting my results from N2. Main point is: as an upper beginner/lower intermediate student, quitting almost all other kanji activities and focusing on finishing volume 1 of RTK was the best choice I have made in my Japanese studies so far.

Has anyone here finished volume two, or maybe even moved on to the third volume? I cannot wait to see what lies ahead!

Among those learners, some of them spend years and years studying kanji and never make any progress in their Japanese as they are using incredibly inefficient techniques or methods, while never moving away from their kanji studies to focus on actual, real Japanese.But with the right method, kanji can be one of the easiest parts of learning Japanese.Which is exactly why I have written this guide.To help you learn Kanji without wasting years of your life in doing so.I know tonnes of people (including myself) that have used the method that I am going to share with you today and many of them have gone on to become insanely good at Japanese.For example this guy and this guy (check their Japanese with a native, they will be impressed).

Knowing the meanings of individual kanji also means that it is really easy to understand more complicated words.Take the word for example.Every Japanese child that knows (monkey) and (person) will be able to understand and infer the meaning of this word straight away.Now lets take a look at the English translation of this word:AustralopithecineHopefully you can see where I am coming from here.Knowing the meanings of each character makes even the most difficult of words in English, incredibly easy to understand in Japanese.Here are a few more examples:(dark) + (black) + (stuff) + (quality) = (dark matter)(open) + (flower) = (blooming) e24fc04721