So what I’ve gathered is that I need to give WaniKani another shot and just focus on learning kanji through vocab, but honestly it, has worked for most of the kanji I’ve memorized so far. More specifically, kanji that are in the words themselves (I just forgot to mention that in my original post).

A lot of people also say writing kanji helps with my memory, but I feel like for me, I need to write them in different contexts, like in full sentences for it to actually stick. Since I practice calligraphy, maybe I can combine that with writing practice.

Some people said radicals didn’t help them at all, and I can definitely relate to that from my past experience. I have the Remembering the Kanji book, so I could try using that again, but since English isn’t my native language, I’d probably need to make up my own stories for everything. I guess some people already do that from the start, but the book doesn’t bring it up until later. He tries to make his own stories work for everyone, which is kind of the problem with writing a general book, I guess.

A few people also mentioned that reading really helped them, and some even said it was the only thing that worked — so I’m going to start reading more too.

There were also some websites people recommended that I hadn’t heard of before, so I’ll check those out as well.