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Message: [QUOTE="qw90700, post: 363836, member: 660650"] But seriously best way to learn is actually using the knowledge, not just reading kanji. I will skip whole neurology 101 here, the simple logic is unless the knowledge you use used because you wanted to do something about it only then the memory gets stronger and your brain "cares" what you know so you don't forget it. That's why the best way to learn a language is by talking to people (I kinda mean chatting via text message in your context though). Then you will mirror them to learn how they talk and to apply your knowledge to predict how the sentence will go and what they will be about (this is like basics of how babies learn languages). And then another thing is learned memory being linked with other previously learned memories with multiple information you learn at the same time. That's why conversation is a better way to learn a language compared to looking at a list of kanji or something. For example when you learn the word for "white" you will focus on what letters the word is formed with. But if you had learned the word "white" by experiencing some emotionally impactful moment you would focus on how the word make you feel and what it makes you remember and what the word is about that strengthens your memory for the word. This is needed for you to think in that language. As long as what you learn has an emotional personal reason you will learn it better. The key here is thinking in Japanese, not trying to translate words and shit. You don't translate your native language. When you were a baby you didn't understand what people were saying. You understood what makes people say what and how they sound like. By observing you learned what they were probably trying to mean. In the end most native speakers actually really don't know what words mean unless it is the name of stuff, but they just use words only in a specific context and for particular purposes that have a merit of "right way to use words". You gotta apply the same logic in learning kanji too. Good thing Japanese is so simple often entire sentences are standard sentences and that's why you only use particular kanjis in them that other kanjis may fit and make sense but it won't be natural. And that's why when someone trying to say something to you in Japanese it is hard to say things differently in Japanese because otherwise it won't sound natural. Otherwise you can always go full on philosophising that the listener will get but it will sound weird or "cool phoetic" lol. So when you practice kanjis you gotta focus on practising standard sentence types a person may say. Thus your brain starts to see after seeing a kanji what other kanjis or words you will see next. This also makes you gain the ability to predict entire sentences by just reading a few first kanjis because there is no other way the sentence may end. At decent level you stop looking at kanjis individually, you just figure what the kanji is and it can make you forget how kanjis look like in detail which gotta write kanjis from time to time to not get rusty. That's why Japanese games having tons of shit dialogue is a good reminder for your reading ability lol. However manga and anime are not a good way to learn Japanese because it is like learning English by listening Americano rap songs. This is not how natives talk in daily life lol. Manga and anime using a form of Japanese only for emotional impact for fiction to sound dramatic or cool because how real life people talk doesn't sound emotional or cool that can be interesting enough for fiction, and then since manga cannot fit longer sentences they had to come up with shorter way to say stuff. And then some video games also suffer from abnormal Japanese usage lol. For example in real life we don't say "絶対、負けねぇ！" we say "頑張ります" or "負けるわけにはいきません" or "全力を尽くします". And instead of saying "ぐっ... 右腕が熱い... まさか、俺の力が目覚めたっていうのか!!![B]" [/B]we say "手がちょっと痺れてて、念のため医者に見てもらう" lolol. [/QUOTE]

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