The people at the Japanese Language Educational Journal were kind enough to invite me to write about my experience learning Japanese for the March 1st edition of that Newspaper. In that article I talked about my personal experience coming to Japan on the JET program and learning Japanese from almost zero at that time. In that article I also talked briefly about learning kanji using James Heisig’s Remembering the Kanji books.
For the English translation of that article, click here.
For the May 1st edition of the Japanese Language Educational Journal, I talked specifically about my experience and beliefs about kanji education. In particular I spoke about a technique called component analysis and the advantages of teaching kanji systematically. I also touched on the software I have been developing called Kanpeki that is intended to help students and teachers use component analysis to study kanji.
For the English translation of that article, click here.