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I would like to learn kanji...would anyone be so kind to help me? i can trade languages..french and english.?

 The top Symbol for each syllable is the Hiragana for it and the bottom symbol is the Kanji.

correction.. bottom symbol is KATAKANA not kanji..

Yus... Top is Hiragana, bottom is katakana. 

To be perfectly honest, I think that there are some kanji that you can learn, and the rest you just have to find out as you go along. 

Sometimes you're lucky, and you get what I personally call 'friendly kanji' XD. I forget the correct name for it, but it's kanji with small hiragana written above it, so you know immediately how to say it. But, I think that's for Japanese children, I mean, they're still learning, too ;]. 

 If you've ever watched an anime, you'll probably notice that they put the lyrics to the title/credits song at the bottom of the screen, in kanji/hiragana. This usually has 'friendly kanji' and you could potentially learn a lot from that, if you have a better memory than I do and have a notebook or something handy... ^^ 

But make sure you know hiragana (and katakana, preferably), before you start thinking about kanji. Kanji is a whole other world, believe me XD 

(*Wallflower just realises she just wrote a big essay for a post that has been here and inactive for like 6 months*) XD

Hi Wallflower! The 'easy kanji' you refer to is called 'furigana'. I have found that learning to recognise a kanji first (rather than trying to struggle with learning both the 'on' and 'kun' readings plus the number of strokes, direction and order of writing the strokes, etc.) helps somewhat.   I struggle more with conversation - can anyone help?  I use Skype.  How about you?