144: Learning Japanese Kanji with Star Wars

In this episode, I speak with Kevin about his fascinating journey to learn to read and write Japanese. Find Kevin's blog here.

In this episode:

• How Kevin got started with Japanese
• Struggles in learning kanji
• Materials that inspired him

Resources Mentioned In This Episode:

• Wanikani - a website for learning kanji
• Heisig's Remembering The Kanji book
• Memrise - website for memorising vocabulary
• The jouyou kanji (常用漢字) - the Japanese government's official list of kanji in regular use

Kevin shows us how to use Wanikani: