My best method of studying is romanizing lyrics. I just do a lot of them, and after time, I start to remember the readings and meanings for many of them. All my text books and stuff have taught me so little in comparison to this.

I just type out what I know and use the disctionary for the ones I don't as I go along. Like I said, eventually it all just clicks. ^_^

thanks for the suggestion..

Ahh! the typing out.. that is the killer - even my Japanese friends say that word processors make them forget how to write kanji!...

I just hope my sense of initiative doesn't disappear.. Just once I want to look at a Japanese site and not have to look up everything! lol

I try learning kanji from songs and get the meaning from the dictionary. I'm not enrolled in a nihongo class now because sensei is at Japan taking her masters.

Try writing it with the strokes...hope this helps...

I would say, you should make a kanji sheet for yourself.
because that's what i do with my tutoring sessions. (btw i'm a Japanese Tutor at my School for the program because pretty much I AM the Japanese Person on Campus) =P
cuz the most important thing is to be able to read and write it.
well, more like reading it... ANYWAYZ~ i would say making the work sheet works the best.

^_^ Thanks for the advice.. In fact I do make worksheets- this site is so helpful
http://members.aol.com/joyo96/index96.html

Unfortunately we don't have an advice, because we are struggling with kanji ourselves. But it helps to read as much Japanese as possible. To remember all the readings is terribly hard; whenever you encounter a new reading try to save it on your harddisk (=brain). Demo ganbarimashou!!!!!!
We also have to sit down on our butts and do some serious studying again - Japanese Language Proficiency Test Level 2 is coming up in December.

Hmm. What works for me is just the practice. It's kinda easier that I have a class and a set of vocabulary I -have- to learn so I just learn any relevant kanji and forget about all readings at the moment...

I can't guarantee it will work but I'm on my last semester of Japanese in school (no more available and I will only have an intermediate level >.>). My course of action is to expand on readings I haven't learned from kanji I already know how to read in at least one way (building vocab). Actually writing it does more wonders than I realize, too. :O

I prefer to try and learn all the readings at once, but only the common readings, not the obsolete ones because once you start getting the readings you can basicly figure any combination. Its helped me a lot here, and most about 90 percent of the time i am right in my reading of it.