This series of books is by far the best I have ever found for learning kanji. One person found this helpful. I taught Japanese in public schools, elementary, junior high and high school, as well as tutored college students. This allows you to memorize them easily, but the English word you attach to them is absolute nonsense and may confuse and harm your ability to learn the meanings of the Kanji later yeah, you learn the meanings in the second book of Heisig's methodology; first book is nothing but the shapes of the characters. In fact, if you learn each Kanji you come across as merely a series of strokes, you will feel constant frustration at your inability to remember how to write them.
