Sleepyhead wrote:

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The Kanji features over 3000 characters in regular use and memorising them will be a completly different experience to the kana.

My understanding is that Japanese people are taught about 100 or so each school year until they leave high school. I'm not sure how it is structured but I would imagine they begin with common kanji and work towards less common ones.

I've heard that this isn't a good way for foreigners who already speak another language and they should learn by 'Radical'. The only problem is I cannot find a clear definition of a radical, or how to go about learning them this way.

That sounds like "hocus pocus" to me. Radicals are a way of searching for kanji in a dictionary, not for learning them.

I would suggest that you think about learning words rather than learning kanji. Learn the kanji as you need them to write words.

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Another method I have heard is learning by stroke count.

It looks like you are a crazy mixed up kid, because again stroke counts are a way to look up kanjis in a dictionary not to learn them. I have a web page which explains:

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Let me know if it's useful to you or not.

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What way did/are you learning? And what are the pro's and con's?

I went to a calligraphy class, and the teacher made me write "one", "two", and then "three" (can't seem to type Japanese on this forum). It took a month because I had to write them over and over again.