I've heard of Heisig, but only recently. My method for learning kanji was to count the strokes (it's relatively simple to figure the stroke count for any chara

I've heard of Heisig, but only recently. My method for learning kanji was to count the strokes (it's relatively simple to figure the stroke count for any character: http://infohost.nmt.edu/~armiller/japanese/strokeorder.htm http://infohost.nmt.edu/~armiller/japanese/strokeorder.htm) then use that number to look them up in a dictionary. But everything I looked up was in the context of a sentence, while trying to read a report at work, e.g.