Psychia Wrote:Now, the only problem I have is that I can't really use the kanji i'm learning here.Hi Psychia, let me give you an example. How about "to eat" = tabemasu = たべます ＝食べます。The kanji version, 食べます, contains hiragana (べます), which I assume you can read, and a kanji character (食), which I'll assume you can't.
When you finish RTK1, you'll know basic meanings for about 2000 characters. You'll know 食 means eat. So now you have a lot of clues. What word do you know that has something to do with eating and ends with (べます)?
Not all are words are this easy, of course, but most are. You'll still need to do a lot of practice reading to get fast, but finishing RTK1 is the hard part.