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'.

I'm fluent in Chinese and traditional at that and the best I can tell you is just go left to right, top to bottom. Do the inside of the squares before you close them and if you can, try to make a story/picture out of it. Like say, the character 喻, it's like a house. Do the "garage" first going left line, top line, right line, bottom line, then the roof left slant, right slant then the line below it. The 月 is the door so you go left line then the top and right line with the hook is one stroke so don't lift your pen when drawing it then the two lines in the middle and then you can just finish the final two stroke next to it going left first then the right one. ... wow my family name is a good bit of strokes. Hahaha. That probably wasn't a good explanation but I hope it helps someone. At least rest assured that japanese kanji is a lot more simple than traditional chinese :P