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Basic Kanji Book: v. 1
by: Chieko Kano, Yuri Shimizu, Hiroko Takenaka

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 495
EAN: 9784893580917
ISBN: 4893580914
Label: Bonjinsha
Manufacturer: Bonjinsha
Number Of Pages: 228
Publication Date: April 01, 1991
Publisher: Bonjinsha
Studio: Bonjinsha
Sales Rank: 35570

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- The best way to start learning kanji properly!
If you are looking at this book thinking it looks a bit simple, and are being swayed by the promise of Heisig's method teaching you 2000 kanji in weeks I urge you to read this review.

When I started Japanese a few years back. I was swayed by Heisig, I bought his book. I got a bit of a way in, all well and good. But what was I actually learning? It is a common misconception that you must associate a meaning to each kanji, this is all that Heisig's first book does. This is completely the wrong thing to do. For many kanji, on there own they don't really mean anything. Combined with kana or other kanji, you get meanings. What is truely important about a kanji is it's readings. After learning some compounds and uses of a kanji you will ... Read More:

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- Basic Kanji Book 1 Excellent
This book really works for me. It has a multiple approach, understanding the Kanji thro' their picture origins, compounds, radicals... You will need to complete this with a good set of Kanji cards and a japanese reader (children's stories and books are excellent, my personal fav is kodomo biberu). You must work very hard writing and rewriting the Kanji to learn them by heart. There is variety, exercises, writing, reading, you break the 50 Kanji barrier with some solid work and then get to 100 quite quickly, with the 100 Kanji really solid, this helps enormously in reading. After that I really enjoyed Read Real Japanese (but I would call this well advanced). Basic Kanji book 1 is an excellent base tool, but it won't do the work for you, you ... Read More:

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- A structured approach
This is not a flashy book. On the other hand, flash is not needed to learn kanji. Learning kanji is what you should buy it for, and it will deliver.

Prerequisits for using this book is a firm grasp och hiragana and katakana. Without it, the going will be much to slow to be enjoyable. Further, a certain control of the language itself is needed, as the reading exercises, while simple, contain many common words not explained in the book itself.

The book is devided into 22 chapters (or lessons if you will), each teaching 10-13 kanji. 249 kanji is presented in these chapters, each with all Kun- and On-readings, complete stroke order and example words wherein they are components.

Each chapter begins with a short piece ... Read More:

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- A No-Nonsense Dive Into Japanese Characters
The first volume of Basic Kanji Book Vol. II is a publication stripped to the essentials, which learning the ill-reputed Chinese characters, that have found their way into Japanese, is all about. It tails its user into crude repetition, aids your ability to remember the shapes by association through illustrations, and at the end of the chapters induces you to exercises that test you on the Kanji you've recently learnt. The book includes as little English as is necessary, which is commendable. The lazy non-Japanese reading eye easily travels over to characters you're familiar with. The verdict is appropriate since the book adequately fulfils its function, but does not do it in an explicitly encouraging or enlightening way. More pictures and a more ... Read More:

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