Re: Help With Learning Kanji

On 2007-01-19 10:10:04 +0900, muchan <muchan@xxxxxxxxxxx> said:

metaphist wrote:
What you some of you better recommend for learning: looking up and
drilling sets of kanji as they appear in actual reading? Or learning
the radicals first, then moving on to the complex stuff? I've been
experimenting with the first approach lately, but can't help but think
the second method might create a better foundation for the first in the
longrun.


I recommend drilling to write with oriental brush... (毛筆）
and learn to write each character properly and beautifully.

I think incorporating calligraphy with your kanji learning is highly underrated among Westerners! I haven't gotten into true shodo with the brush and ink, but I have worked through elementary school kanji-writing texts with calligraphic brush-pens like you get at the stationery store. Learning the correct proportions and stroke technique gives one a feel for the character, easy-to-read handwriting, and muscle memory that may save you when your ability to consciously remember a character fails.

Paul

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