Lean it in the same way as you learned the alphabets in English

I like smart.fm... I learned hiragana and katakana in less than 8 hours.... And, it also has kanji.... It takes *forever* to learn the Jouyou kanji (I've only learned about 500 of them).... In school, they're still learning them in high school.... (of course, I don't know how they *actually* learn them...) Feel free to send me a message if you have any questions. ^-^ ~Megumi