It took me a while to write this cause I didn’t want to look like a fraud not fulfilling the words of my previous post by not putting as much in my kanji practice as my vocabulary. I have been stabilizing my vocabulary ability which as ta132 says “maintaining more important that going ahead” which made me happy to continue with that. Though since this is something of a problem I asked Phantism how did he learn kanji when we was a 初心者 and was blown away by the practicalness of his idea when he said “I started with the simple kanji”. I had to take a moment to think because this was profoundly genius due to I was just mindlessly gathering any kanji that was thrown to me in Japanese Skype conversations. However what was so genius about this was the kanji I was trying to write/understand was kanji that even children in Grade 1 Japanese weren’t even bothered by to understand or to even write (since their parents are a walking dictionary. Or they have furigana around the signs). Now my plan is to study all of the Grade 1 kanji first which was hilarious while anki’ing them because most of the Grade 1 kanji is what I understand right now which means this is the right path that I will be on and this will be the experiment that I will be doing.
While learning them grade by grade is better than learning them in a random "as encountered" order, I think there is an even better way. I learned kanji on Slime Forest(http://http://lrnj.com), which groups together similar-looking characters, starting with the simplest ones, and working up to more complex ones. You learn radicals and build the kanji up from there.
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Learning kanji by the grade levels is somewhat more random in comparison.
Aw thanks i will check that out
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