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The key to remembering new kanji is to return to it as many times as you can, a little and often approach is likely to yield more rapid overall progress than doing most of these steps at one sitting. Remember that the Japanese are surrounded by kanji in their everyday lives but you do not have such natural triggers to jog your memory, so try to arrange your learning program accordingly. For example if you have 10 minutes kanji time every day, try to cover a couple of steps for 4 or 5 glyphs rather than just completing all steps for just one. Doing this should help you avoid just placing the kanji in your ‘short term’ memory.
These steps are numbered according to their position in the progress mapper.
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If your studies are self propelled, you are strongly urged to follow the sequence of kanji in the book. Careful consideration has been given to this order, and following it should mean that at no stage will you encounter a main component which we have not covered earlier. In this regard you have the advantage over those on a learning program in which new kanji are selected by topic. This applies particularly to section one, as section two kanji is largely built around components already introduced in section one, so here we do not offer full page descriptions of main components on the preceding page. Another reason to follow the order in the book is, of course, to save time messing round turning pages or clicking buttons looking for your work.
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When you are assigned homework, this is a great time to do a preview of the readings and cues, and bookmark your pages for future reference if you have the time. Your ‘sensei’ might allow you a short period to complete your preview and draw the kanji following the stroke order diagram.
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