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Marilyn Method: Chinese Character Mnemonics

Why "Remembering the Kanji" is The Best Way to Learn Kanji

before I end this 34:09 video I want to talk a bit about why I recommend making going through remembering the kanji the very first 34:14 thing you do upon starting your journey to Japanese mastery even before learning any grammar or vocabulary no larger 34:27 process of learning Japanese and having a dictionary entry for each kanji in your head will allow you to take away 34:33 much more from each moment you spend with written Japanese so it goes to 34:38 reason that the overall most efficient route to getting good at Japanese is to knock remembering the kanji out of the 34:43 way first thing so that you can let the benefits begin to accumulate as soon as possible and on a similar line of 34:49 reasoning the more time you spend each day learning kanji the sooner you'll be finished so rather than splitting your 34:55 daily study time into kanji and grammar its overall more efficient to do nothing but kanji so that after that you can 35:02 move on to do nothing but grammar while reaping the benefits of knowing the kanji and if you're in the context of 35:08 the a jet method doing no active study but kanji for the first few months isn't as much of an apparent setback as you 35:14 might think you see when you first start listening to a foreign language you can't even tell where one word ends and another 35:20 word begins it just sounds like a gobbledygook of sound but just by listening to raw audio in 35:25 the language for a few hundred hours your brain slowly becomes able to parse all of the individual sounds 35:31 if you can't even hear what vowels and consonants are being said then you don't have a shot in hell of making out actual 35:37 vocab and sentences so the very first step to becoming able to understand spoken Japanese doesn't require an ounce 35:44 of active study so basically it naturally goes to reason that if one wishes to master Japanese as efficiently 35:51 as possible the first step is to use your active study time to learn the kanji and then use the rest of your spare time 35:57 throughout the day to immerse yourself in Japanese audio as much as possible