As much as I like the approach to learning kanji on this site, I have to say, I simply loathe the reading/writing system. Nothing seems to really work for me. Mnemonics don’t - I end up trying to remember the mnemonic rather than what it’s supposed to remind me of. Kana is from me, I can work with …

The mnemonics don’t really do much for me either :slight_smile: When I first started learning Kanji I couldn’t remember anything. I remember trying to write 多 over and over again but it never stuck with me. I think you just need a LOT of practice and eventually it feels easier as you go. The best …

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They have hiragana, katakana, and Romaji. Any one of them would be a more logical system.

The kana scripts I have no problem with. And I had few problems with Hangul, the short time I was in Korea. It’s just kanji.

The reason kanji is needed is because they have so many words pronounced the same way: For example: 加味、上、紙、神、髪 are all pronounced かみ. It makes it easier to understand what word we are using. Also, since they don’t have spaces, it would be difficult to read without it :slight_smile: For example, it…

[image] SystemD: They have hiragana, katakana, and Romaji. No, they don’t have romaji, romaji is not part of Japanese. [image] SystemD: Any one of them would be a more logical system Languages are not logical systems.

If you’d like I can try to help you :blush: Is it memorizing the meanings of the kanji, or do you not understand how they work (Like Onyomi, Kunyomi, etc.)?

Nothing in life is a logical system. Anyways, the mnemonics always work quite well for me, although I usually end up shortening them. For example, the kanji for special (特), using the radicals for cow and temple. The COW at the TEMPLE is SPECIAL because it can talk/とく. If I see a kanji I read th…

They could leave spaces between words, like other writing systems do…

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