Kanji 101

Introduction to Kanji

This book is for everyone who wants to learn some kanji. Before you begin this book, I highly recommend being able to read and write hiragana and katakana, although not 100% necessary. I will write the kanji in the same order a Japanese elementary school child would learn the kanji. The reason for this is because each kanji builds off of one another. Kanji I wouldn't say is difficult but can take a lot of memorizing. Personally, the best way to learn is to write it over and over again which is the way I learned. Something you have to be careful of when writing kanji, is there is a specific stroke order. Now this is where I can't help you with in this book. In Japan, if you use the wrong stroke order while writing Kanji, the Kanji is automatically written wrong. And yes, we can tell what order you've written the Kanji in. So hopefully after each chapter, I'll add a link that will take you to a webpage explaining the stroke order of some kanji.

Thanks and good luck!