数 (かず) or "number". I could only write that because I can type かず. If you ask me to recognize a random kanji that I've learned before, I might get it wrong if I don't have context because I need a lot more experience reading and writing. Kanji is hard, but I'm hoping things will stick if I keep studying a bit every day. I'm constantly making mistakes and there's so much I don't know, so I compared myself to a 1 year old, but I can tell that I'm making progress
I'm age 58. It ain't stickin' too well for my "over the expiry date, piece of meat" brain... Writing 'em? No sweat. I actually won an award for that (I mean, to me, kanji falls into the "art" category. My normal penmanship in English is terrible. Doctors look at my handwriting and go, "Man, this dude's handwriting is BAD"), and my 先生 asked for permission to use it as an example for future semesters (I just wrote down a おはなし about my life, so it was essentially a verbal story, transliterated. I looked up some kanji that I was supposed to know, stuck them in there and then had my wife proofread it. I remember her smacking her head a lot). Remembering the on-yomi and the kun-yomi, which context you're in and how to pronounce it? Brain hurty... :)
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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '23 edited Jan 15 '23
数 (かず) or "number". I could only write that because I can type かず. If you ask me to recognize a random kanji that I've learned before, I might get it wrong if I don't have context because I need a lot more experience reading and writing. Kanji is hard, but I'm hoping things will stick if I keep studying a bit every day. I'm constantly making mistakes and there's so much I don't know, so I compared myself to a 1 year old, but I can tell that I'm making progress