掲示板 Forums - Just looking at the kanji characters makes me feel scared and afraid😭

Hmm..that's not the spirit to learn japanese. You got to have faith in yourself. If you try hard without believing and just by looking at it thats just foolishness. You have got to try that is when you will get to learn that how easy it is. Everyone goes through this phase.

You will forget, you will mix things up and that's not failure, that's how brain memory works. Kanji isn't a test you pass, its a progress of years you build.

You know I had/have the same.... It completely stopped me from my goal of learning Japanese. I ignore them for now and focus on things I like, and sometimes when learning a new word, some kanji pops up and I want to know what it means and automatically learn the kanji. For now I just focus on common words like for instance women and men for bathrooms or sake or tea. Things you see on the streets and are fun and useful. The rest will come in time. (probably )

Laugh in fear's face!!
Laughing makes it easier to remember anyway!

For anyone learning Kanji.

can you tell me about his experience and how difficult it is.

I personally rarely mess up stroke order.

I don't remember all the kunyomi/onyomi readings, unless I have enough words in my vocabulary.

I don't always remember how to write it or even forget, but I can still read and recognize it so.. it's okay!

Kinda comes with Japanese, makes it easier to understand.

at first i also felt the same thing, but i have learned a few (人, 犬, 私 and 大 are the ones i can remember quickly, both meaning and readings for most of them) in a short amount of time (and i'm still on the (words for) japanese basics schedules)

something i suggest is remembering that you need to know a lot of words to create a lot of sentences in a language (you can think about how many words you have used in the past week alone) and apply that to learning kanji

i also suggest you only try learning kanji that are in words you already know

i'm still very new to learning japanese, but i hope this helps you out

I would say your best bet is learning words and kanji hand-in-hand. After you've built up a small library of words that you know, you'll be able to recognize some of the onyomi and kunyomi readings that appear in your quizzes because you know the words that they're from and the things that they mean then, the more words you learn, the better you'll be able to pick up kanji readings and meanings everyone gets a bit intimidated at first, but if you just keep at it, I know you'll do great

Also, don't worry about figuring out how to write the kanji just yet; recognizing them in writing is enough when you're starting out. Unless, however, you find that writing them is fun and helps you memorize them. Then I say go for it!

For any kanji learners, I learnt from real real japan and japanese ammo with misa! Using then both teaches not only kanji but grammar and words amd commonly used phrases!

Remember that even japanese struggle with kanji. And often make fun of themselves for that (like "Haha, you don't remember that reading or how to write that kanji"). So at that point, there's nothing to be afraid, everyone struggle with those thing =p

But at the same time, once you get use to them/are beyond a certain threshold, they will become your best friend.
Learning a word with some unknown kanji -> hell
Learning a word with familiar kanji -> Oh, it's just that combination of kanji, makes senses

There are a word that I don't even learn anymore because there are a just a combination of basic kanji. So yeah, they are terrifying at the beginning but later, they seriously make your life easier. Also don't hesitate to spend some time even on the basic one. I "only" learned around a 1000 kanji because I spent more time learning word with those kanji (at the same level some people already learned the 2000~ daily life kanji). But I don't regret it. It's hard at the beginning but really, you won't regret spending time learning them ^^