How To Study Japanese Kanji?

Is it easy to study Japanese kanji?

• Answer:

  It depends on what you mean by easy. If you mean you can master them all in a week, then no, it's not easy. There are around 2,000 Japanese kanji listed as everyday use. A lot of them are simple, and most of them have parts of others in them (Like 'time' having 'sun' in it.) Once you get a foundation of the basic kanji, say the first 4 levels, it's fun to reason out unfamiliar kanji by the parts of them you recognize. Japanese is a logical language, so a lot of them make sense if you think about them. (Like flood being Big+Water or toes being Fingers+Feet) If you're learning to speak Japanese, I'd recommend learning kanji. It makes it simpler because if you can write down a kanji you can't remember how to say, people will understand you better. If you're just trying to learn kanji by themselves, I wouldn't recommend it. It's better to combine the two than to try to learn them separate from each other.