"If you enjoy manga, you'll love learning Japanese with this book. The language lessons are interspersed with entertaining manga comic strips that make it easy to learn and remember all the key vocabulary and grammar. The plot picks up where Learn Japanese with Manga Volume 1 left off, following Nuria, a journalist who is sent to Tokyo to research a news story, where she keeps encountering a mysterious 'shadow' or kage"--Publisher's description.

This handy book teaches you a new mnemonics-based method to read and write the 430 highest-frequency kanji characters. The accompanying CD-ROM includes an interactive game, printable flash cards, and native-speaker audio recordings of all 430 kanji and their related vocabulary.

Learn Japanese using broadcast quality video and the latest interactive techniques. Perfect for travelers, families, business people, and students.

Provides basic instruction for reading, writing, and recognizing more than four hundred commonly-used Japanese characters, including a brief history of the writing system, and an index to English meanings.