[Azrael]

XD I can't spell in THREE different languages that I can write! Yay for me <3
english, Japanese, OR Korean. Especially Korean... XD

[Demonskid]

xD I wanna learn one at a time and i gave up on english ;3

[Azrael]

LoL
I think my spelling's so bad with Korean cause I'm not entirely certain on how to pronounce things @_@'

[Coda]

Neither! I learned kanji as part of vocabulary instead of standing alone. I would learn a word including how to write it, and that was that. If I came across a kanji I recognized in a word I didn't, that was at least enough information to look it up, and thereby learn another reading for it. But I never focused on practicing "this character has these readings" or "this compound sounds like this".

Korean's pronunciation is very normal and consistent. It's very much like Japanese in that regard. And it's an alphabetic language like English, just organized into written syllables to make it even easier to see the cadence of the word.

[Azrael]

Aaah >3< That would be a good way to learn it practically, but unfortunately for school since we were tested on vocab usually, and Kanji only during final/midterm, there was never any reason to remember the kanji as well as trying to remember the word @_@ But I don't know, I do prefer just learning all of the readings.

I know it's consistent, but I find it very difficult to pronounce. Along with the writing, there's some rules I can never quite remember as well. >3<' Something about the fourth character going over to the next syllable or something like that. I don't remember ;-;

[whitexsuicide]

i wish i could remember the kanji i learned, it was just so much and towards the last year i started to not study and stuff, which made everything harder...

[Demonskid]

Kanji is hard to memorize ._.

[whitexsuicide]

it soo is! then trying to memorize the stroke order UGH... that is the worst!
My sensei really worked us hard on it too..

[Demonskid]

i'll stick with my kana lessons for now ono

[whitexsuicide]

hhahah that is a good thing to do~ I just need vocab re-taught, then maybe some sentence structure

[Demonskid]

x3 I read some of the momotarosu story out loud once.. i sounded horrible xD

[whitexsuicide]

hahaha i think i can pronounce things pretty well except sounara... can't even spell it right >w<

[Demonskid]

sayorana? the one for good bye?

[whitexsuicide]

YES! see how bad i am with that.. it was one of the first words we learned and i still could not say it right! i even had a disk i listened to over and over again and i just couldn't get it~

[Demonskid]

I get the words, that have like similar sounding sounds right after the other, all mixed up xD

[Coda]

「さようなら」。 "Sayounara."

Also: Stroke order is easy. It's the same for every kanji. You write the sections ("radicals") left-to-right, top-to-bottom, and in each section you write the strokes left-to-right, top-to-bottom. The top and right strokes of box-like shapes is a single stroke (like writing the number 7). The only tricky part is knowing when the left and bottom sides are one stroke (like the example below) or two (as in a box) -- and that's just a matter of practice; usually you can tell by the shape of the character. Once you get used to thinking of it this way, you'll be able to write unfamiliar kanji without even thinking about it.

Let's look at this character (tatsu, "dragon"). Looks scary! But it's not. First you do the five-stroke piece on the top-left, then you do the four-stroke piece on the bottom left. Then the really scary-looking part on the right goes in this order:
* Short vertical stroke
* First horizontal stroke
* Second horizontal stroke connected to short vertical bit
* Third horizontal stroke
* Long vertical stroke connected to tail at bottom
* Fourth, fifth, and sixth horizontal strokes