Kanji is a freakin headache!

I've been tryn to memorize kanji symbols nd I can only memorize 16-64 a week, thts a problem -.- Anyone kno any techniques??? It'd be nice to have some help ;-*

I'd suggest learning simpler ones and radicals first to help with meaning. I also like turning the kanji into some sort of related picture. I get by with this, though I'm terrible at learning all the pronunciations.

I can already write some Chinese so some kanji is readable to me in meaning but I have no idea of sounds. I plan on memorizing the 50 most common kanji and then working on my Chinese some more, with Chinese I will do both Japanese and Chinese pronunciations.

Or at least pick it up after so much anime and dramas and stuff

Yeah Kanji. :D Like it has been said before start with the more common kanji since the more complex ones use the common kanji as part of the word itself. Not easy but a good goal in life. Good luck. ^_^

A lot of kanji do use some of the radicals for pronunciation too. Like the kanji for language has the radical for five in it. And this gives the kanji for language the pronunciation of 'go'.