Hi guys,

Im about 1000+ words in already but i think i am reviewing the kanji wrongly.


This is because when i look at some of the kanji, i cant instantly get the keyword from the kanji itself . I have to break up the elements and try to remember the story before actually getting the keyword. Sometime i cant get the story although i know i have learned this kanji before



My reviews currently go like this: I look at the keyword, i try to think of the story, then i try to recall the image.

Is it correct or wrong?

It's fine. If you don't need to recall the story, that's OK. If you need it, that's OK, too.

As RandomQuotes said: if you can instantly recall the keyword from the Kanji, it's fine. If you can recall the keyword by first going through the story and primitives, it's also fine. What it's not fine is if you can't recall neither the keyword nor the story. If the primitives you are seeing don't fit into a story even though you know there was a story for that, then you probably should improve your story or memorize a new one.