Japanese help please.

Ryusaki

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I am studying the language of Japanese but I am at the stage where I am finding it very difficult. I cannot remember Kanji after study. I can write Katanaka and Hiragana. I can speak quite a bit too. If someone could tell me a good way to study Kanji!
ありがとうございます!
 
^^ I speak a bit of Japanese as well. I have been self studying for a few years now! I have just the site for you: Read the Kanji

All you have to do is click Get Started and Sign up. You can try the free version but if you want to study further you need to pay.
 
^^ I speak a bit of Japanese as well. I have been self studying for a few years now! I have just the site for you: Read the Kanji

All you have to do is click Get Started and Sign up. You can try the free version but if you want to study further you need to pay.
どうもありがとう!!
 
I'm learning Hiragana from my mother.
She learned Japanese.
:P
Err... I don't have japanese key board :|
only korean and english -.-

Konnichiwa Ryusaki-san..
are you a guy or a girl? o_o?
 
Kanji has 2 readings : on yomi and kun yomi (Chinese and Japanese readings). But in order to remember kanji, you have to study the radicals. for example :
海 - umi - sea.
the 1st 3 strokes are a radiacal which means water.
also some kanji have kinda look like the meaning or have something to do with it.
For example:
楽 - music. the 1st 5 strokes is a drum. 6-9 are gongs. and the 木 on the bottom is the wooden base. And when 2 kanjis are together, they mostly use on reading.
hoped I helped ^_^
(Btw there is a joyo kanji, 常用漢字,which means commonly used kanji. I suggest you use that cuz the kanji goes grade by grade the grade 1 is the easiest.)

Hoped I helped! ^^

Btw, 楽 has more than one meaning. The meanings are music, pleasure, and comfort.
 
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This guy has a great video series on Kanji memorisation, here's the first one:

 
I can't really help you learn the language, but I do know one thing.

Until you are fully fluent, do not use it on the internet. At all.
 
I forgot to add this.
Another example of a radical is
焼 - cook. The radical is the first 4 strokes, it comes from the kanji 火 - fire.
 
Thank you so much for the people who helped! And for [Nook] Why bother posting? The internet is one of the only ways I can the language of Japanese.
 
Do you need help with just the Kanji or are you still learning the aspects of the language?

For further help you can try the Japanese from Zero self learning book series or go online to their website yesjapan.com and try the free lessons (again you'll have to pay for the other lessons, but the good news is there is a real Japanese instructor who you can direct your questions to). Unfortunately the website forums are very very dull with hardly any activity anymore.
 
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