Sunday, March 8, 2009

Remembering the Kanji

I have begun (re-) studying Kanji (Chinese characters used in the Japanese language). The method that I am using is detailed in a book entitled Remembering the Kanji Vol 1. After the first week, I am at 80 some odd characters. The method entails building an image/story of any particular Kanji based on primitives (radicals). Thus far, I am impressed with the method and have learned several quite complicated characters. Some Kanji that I already knew were easy, but most that I have learned are new to me since the character order of this method does not follow JLPT level or grade level. I will report my progress here.