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Some! Getting the hang of radicals now. But yes I know some :)

乾杯! :D

I haven't found a good way to yet... Last Saturday I thought 'Hey, I'll learn Japanese' and it was smooth sailing learning Hiragana and Katakana, but there aren't many free tools for learning Kanji available.
But looking at your status, you've probably got paid lessons.

I've got a site with good theory (guidetojapanese.org), but nothing sticks...
Perhaps I'll get a good old physical notebook and write Kanji and their meaning, use and pronunciation in there, that might help remembering. :)

Oh, I don't have paid lessons. I learn Japanese in general through memrise.com , then to learn the essentials for kanji, I used a video on YouTube called Learn Kanji in 45 Minutes. It's by JapanesePod101 :) I have a notebook filled with notes that I'm currently transferring into a huge binder. Takes me longer, but I note EVERYTHING lol

Ah, cool!
I'll check those out, thanks. :)

I suggest signing up for free on Memrise, as well as download Google IME to your computer. It allows you to type in Japanese if you know the romaji (how I typed 乾杯)

Yup, I've got Japanese keyboards on Windows and iOS.
I also signed up on Memrise, but it looks like it'll try to learn me Hiragana (and probably Katakana) first, while I already know those...
The video seems nice, though, and it linked a free iBook which actually seems pretty helpful (although it's so huge the iBooks app often can't keep up :P).

I'm a bit skeptical about using Memrise to learn, although it is surely helpful for reviewing.
My main issue is that it's teaching the hiragana in arbitrary order, in order to get enough to form words as quickly as possible. But, that way, the hiragana might form a mess in your brain as well.

It seems better to me to learn them in the columns of 5 (a, i, u, e, o; ka, ki, ku, ke, ko; sa, si, su, se, so and so on), and then learn what the accents do afterwards.
Memrise told me が before か, which I don't find tactical at all.

I tend to forget kana, so I often use my guides that I created. I think Memrise is good for review in the start, but it gives you certain hiragana first because it teaches you sentences and not much in the way of individual characters. :)

Yeah, I think that's what Memrise is going for.
I'm glad I learned hiragana and katakana first, though, as now I hardly ever forget any kana. :) (and it only took me 4 days to learn both, while on those days I did lots of other stuff as well. :P)