If you have oral fluency and reading fluency and just need practice with writing, you really may not need a detailed, somewhat contrived mnemonic system to learn the writings of the kanji; it may be more efficient to just work through a couple levels of the Kanji Kentei test prep books, put the questions and answers in Anki, and develop writing fluency that way.

kameden Wrote:I can read decently and can recognize over 2500 kanji, however I can write very few.

Out of curiosity, how did that happen - prolific reading? How long did it take you?

As for RTK, I think it is exceptionally effective for the purpose of remembering how to write kanji. When used as intended it is so much better than muscle memory it's not even funny. Actually, there is always someone around here grumbling that the only thing RTK is good for is memorizing the writing (those are usually people that have trouble understanding why RTK doesn't teach readings).

Some people use Japanese keywords. Might make things easier for an advanced student. I would not spend too much time looking for better ones, as others have already pointed out. Keywords are considered a temporary crutch. They are actually meant to be bio-degradable (fade from memory) as the student gains actual vocabulary.

shinsen Wrote:As for RTK, I think it is exceptionally effective for the purpose of remembering how to write kanji. When used as intended it is so much better than muscle memory it's not even funny.

Remembering how to write the Kanji, sure. Actually writing, fluently, absolutely not. Writing relies on muscle memory, and there's no way around that.

If you're trying to remember the primitives while writing Kanji, you're not writing fast enough for your writing to be useful.

shinsen Wrote:Out of curiosity, how did that happen - prolific reading? How long did it take you?

By learning words. You'll lock the meaning of kanji in along with stuff like on-yomi readings etc.