How to Learn to Read in a Natural Way

I always listen to people talk about the fact that so you have to memorize the characters, learn the alphabet. But for example, with Japanese, I believe they have three different alphabets and one of them has around 10,000 different characters. So I feel like there's got to be a natural way to acquire it. For example, last thing, if you're actually talking about with your husband, imagine this was his first ever contact with Korean. If you're doing sort of picture tracks, so you're describing the picture, every now and then, so you’re pointing up things,. You're using the pictures to make it comprehensible. Every now and then