>>11806610Its easier than it looks. Japanese kanas are basically based off of indo-aryan alphabet. So if you know english alphabet, just take organize them by how it sounds, take out the vowels and only keep the constanants, then add each vowels for main contanants.
Here's the example for first 4 letters of alphabet, ABCD. You take out A since its a vowel. Now organize B C D into its own row.
B
C
D
Then add each standard vowels to them
Ba Be Bi Bo Bu
Ca Ce Ci Co Cu
Da De Di Do Du
Its basically that. Sometimes its slightly changed. For example, C/K are roughly same sounding, so they're combined. B/H/G are combined, into H as base. Then with modifiers to H turns into B or G sounds.
So now you know how to pronounce the words correctly. Then you move onto Kanji system. Kanji system is made up of conjunction of multiple simple radicals. Radicals are like lego geometric bricks. Each simple shape have simple meanings, but when you combine it, you get a different meaning. Ofcourse not all of kanji is based off of simple radicals. Sometimes, you need to invent new radicals for which there is no previous meaning, so you have more complex kanjis as well. The total number of radicals for Japanese is ~200 or so. Ofcourse radicals only wont give you good fluency, they just give you a much greater depth of what a kanji means.
Most people learn Kanji with minor focus on radicals. That's fine too, but I think when you learn kanji, you should understand the radicals that make up the kanji. It will speed up your general kanji learning.
Also kanjis have 2 different readings, chinese/japanese. You should learn them both at same time.
