Today I finished studying through the meaning and writing of all the 2200 Japanese general-use kanji characters. Thank. God. I decided to start my Japanese studies the hard way, because I knew that otherwise that huge shadow of over 2000 unfamiliar kanji characters would loom over me constantly. It took me several months but I finally made it .. So now that I'm done figuring out the meaning and writing of them, I am free to move on to actual grammar and vocabulary. Along the line I'll pick up pronounciations of said kanji aswell, but that's a whole other long-term project there. And there are obviously thousands more kanji, but with these I should be covered atleast 95% of the time. I'm just glad I got this part over and done with.