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Hi Psychia,

this website does not give any instruction as to how to study and remember the characters. The method is explained in detail in the book that you can see in the documentation page, as laxxy has kindly pointed out above. Have a look at the sample chapter PDF file at the bottom of this page. This can get your through the first 250 or so kanji, to get a good feel of how the method works.

Using the flashcard reviewing on this website for learning the characters might get you to 50, 100 or even 200 characters but after that it will become very hard. Early on you get very simple characters, with relatively different shapes. As you progress to 1000, 1500 and 2000 japanese characters.. there will be too many similar looking characters and visual memory alone will not cut it. That's why you need an effective method such as decomposing the characters into component "primitives", and using mnemonic associations for those components, all of which is introduced in the book, step by step, as you progress from lesson to lesson.
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