Oops. I forgot to hit the reply button before commenting so a new message post has been initiated. Sorry about that. (=・ω・=)
It's fine :P
Ah, well I sure have no clue what to do with blurry kanjis sometimes lol. Sometimes I manage to guess and recognize a few radicals, but hey I'll try the SKIP for times where that doesn't work aha. For less blurry stuff, when it's on a picture and I can't copy it, sometimes I get lazy and use my cellphone to scan it aha. It came with the app Asahi Kanji. The bigger it is though the better it works.
I just went through the radicals before jumping into reading, that's all there is to it ╮(￣▽￣)╭
There was a study carried out among university students that showed that there was an average of two strokes missing for more complex kanjis. Imo it's pretty much an art. They have to learn the order however, because when you write quickly, your letters tend to get cursive right? Learning the stroke order diminishes that effect, and people can better read them. It doesn't have to be perfect, but it's going to near unreadable if it's completely off.
And yes, it's achievable~. Not necessarily difficult, it depends on how impatient you get aha. Personally I'm fine if it's under 10 years, though that's not to discourage you, I'm just not that always actively into it.
I am really sorry for the late reply. I was so busy that I didn't have the time to visit this website until now. LOL those blurry kanjis are a pain in the neck. Sometimes I try all the tricks up my sleeve but still at least 20 to 30% of them remain unidentified inside of a scanned page. There is a website (it is more than one actually) where you can find a kanji by drawing it (jisho.org for example) but it takes a longer time to find the missing kanji if the stroke order isn't right.
Handwritten kanji is another nightmare. Eleven days ago I stumbled upon a handwritten text inside a manga which lasted for several pages. I almost had a heart attack because some of the hiragana and katakana weren't clear; never mind the kanjis because they looked like noodles pinned on a wall.
I've heard that before - the part about 10 years - It is possibly correct that this is the lapse of time needed to become a great scholar in Japanese studies but I am pretty sure that advanced reading and communication could be achieved in two years of persistent studying (=・ω・=) ありがとうございまつ (you're hard working so you get the formal treatment lol (=・ω・=) )
Actually, memorizing the strokes' order is tedious though there are rules and guidelines which govern this. This is totally optional though; I even doubt that Japanese language learners memorize them anyhow (=・ω・=), except for students who majored or are majoring in Japanese language study.
I am glad that you can learn from videos; they're definitely going to be inserted into my curriculum in the future.
I believe that looking up a character by its radical is handier than doing it by the SKIP method. As an utter beginner, I've totally relied on the SKIP method. It is very useful when you're looking at a scanned page and part of the kanji character is undecipherable; not to mention the blurriness of the furigana characters. In spite of that, I always manage to find the kanji in question, some way or the other, thanks to the SKIP method. However, this is going to be in the past now as I want to properly study the language first, then attempt to read Japanese text bit by bit. It is obvious that a systematic study of the language requires to learn and memorize all the kanjis' radicals.
I hope that you're going to achieve fluency as time passes by; and perhaps when that point of time is reached we can have a conversation in Japanese. It is going to be difficult but yet achievable lol (づ￣ ³￣)づ