On a slight side note, kids can't even write their own names in kanji. You can imagine how happy we got when we were taught kanjis that were part of our name. So you shouldn't feel bad about it, taking small steps serve you well in the long term.
Do you have any thoughts on the implications (social, mainly) of logographic writing systems?
Also would be interested in having a sense of the historic patterns of literacy in Japan in context of Tokugawa caste system.
/tia
But there's electronic dictionary on which you can draw to search for kanji.[1] I used one of these in high school.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C5%8Dy%C5%8D_kanji [1] https://www.casio.com/content/dam/casio/product-info/locales...
One thing to note is that the order they are learned is not from easiest to hard. The order is more based off the complexity of the meaning of the kanji.
Afaik Anki is popular for learning Japanese, iirc even the author did exactly that, so there's probably plenty of readymade material. Though it may be mostly for vocabulary.
The reason I'm putting learn in quotation marks is because afterwards you need to reinforce them in context, ie by learning vocab and doing tons of reading (there's a term called 多読 which means it's not the quality of the material or even your level of comprehension, but just the sheer amount of pages you read).
