How To Study Japanese Kanji?

How do Japanese schoolchildren study kanji?

• Answer:

  In doses. Every year they study progressively more Kanji. Just like anyone learning Kanji, they practice writing the character multiple times until it's committed to memory. Study materials for younger children are often workbooks that turn the Kanji into memorable pictures, utiliizing mneumonics to aid in the learning process. Thus, the studying of Kanji is spread out over many years, making it a gradual process, as opposed to foreigners studying Japanese, who must tackle (at the very least) 2000 characters in a relatively short amount of time.