Our selection of comprehensive guides covers how to use Kanshudo as well as how to study Japanese.

If you are just getting started with Kanshudo, you can jump right in by following the study tasks on your Dashboard. If you'd like to read about the system and how it works first, start with our detailed 'how to' guide, Learning Japanese with Kanshudo.

Our comprehensive study guide to getting started learning Japanese.

Our comprehensive guide to studying and mastering Japanese kanji.

Kanshudo search gives you access to comprehensive and powerful Japanese dictionaries, and is a quick way to find anything on Kanshudo. Read this Quick Start Guide for details.

Kanshudo can automatically set your mastery scores for items you already know. For details, read the Quick Start guide.

We are delighted to announce a key new component to the Kanshudo system: a simple and effective way to prioritize your vocabulary studies....

Flashcards are a great learning tool, and with the modern convenience of phones and computers, more accessible than ever. Kanshudo includes...

In this post we're going to dive a little deeper into the relationship between your kanji mastery score and your Japanese mastery level....

Kanshudo's comprehensive guide explains how kanji are drawn. We show you what strokes are used to draw kanji, and how to determine the order. With lots of examples, and links to our drawing tools so you can practice on your own, this is the best way to learn how to actually write Japanese kanji.

Kanshudo includes a sophisticated spaced repetition flashcard system, and you can import flashcards automatically from word lists and various dictionary programs. Use this how to guide for detailed instructions.

Most word-related activities on Kanshudo will improve your word mastery, including Word Quiz, flashcards based on words, and games such as Word Match. Your word mastery is based partly on the actual words you know, and partly on knowledge we can infer - for example, if you reach a high level in the Word Quiz, the odds are good that you know more basic words well, and we can infer that. So if you already have quite a bit of word knowledge, the best way to tell the system that would be to do the Quiz, or study flashcards just below or around the level you are comfortable with.

Which Japanese words should you learn? How many do you need to know? Our guide will show you how to decide what Japanese words to study to give you the best chance of success, and explain our 'usefulness' categorization of words.

Our comprehensive guide to reading Japanese kanji introduces Chinese (on) and Japanese (kun) readings of kanji, gives you rules of thumb for determining how a word you encounter is read, and shows you how to use Kanshudo's search syntax for finding words that use a specific kanji reading.

This how to guide introduces Kanji Builder - a fun and challenging game that will help cement your knowledge of kanji.

This how-to guide provides instructions for some of the key features for users and administrators of Kanshudo for Study Groups.

Our how-to guide introduces you to one of the most powerful memorization techniques: spaced repetition flashcards.

The Kanshudo Component Builder is a fast and effective way to look up kanji - draw, type, or choose components from a list. This how-to guide provides detailed instructions.

A detailed how to guide introducing the Kanshudo Kanji Wheel.

Read our detailed how to guide on the Kanshudo Challenge - the most effective way we've found for studying kanji.

This how to guide introduces the Kanshudo Reading Corner, where you can read a selection of graded texts, fully annotated and linked to kanji and words for easy study. Plus, we introduce our partnership with Satori Reader.

Learn how to accent words correctly in Japanese, how to use pitch symbols in Japanese dictionaries, and how to distinguish some commonly confused words.

Our comprehensive guide shows you how to use Kanshudo's tools for learning inflections and conjugations, and how to combine them together to create complex word forms.