Learn over 2,000 Japanese Kanji characters with this user-friendly Japanese language-learning book. This unique Kanji study guide provides a comprehensive introduction to all the Kanji characters on the Japanese Ministry of Education's official Joyo (""General Use"") list;providing detailed notes on the historical development of each character as well as all information needed by students to read and write them. As fascinating as it is useful, this...

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.

An introduction to reading and writing Japanese and understanding how script works.

Written Japanese consists of three scripts: the phonetic hiragana and katakana syllabaries, each comprised of 46 characters (collectively known as kana); and kanji, a complex set of characters based on Chinese ideographs. Hiragana and katakana are the true "ABCs of Japanese," as they can be used to write complete sentences.

Kana de Manga, the first book in Manga University's award-winning Kanji de Manga series, makes learning kana

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This book presents the kanji characters that are most commonly used. They have been carefully selected for rapid and efficient learning. Each kanji's readings, meanings, and common compounds are presented, and romanized pronunciations for English speakers (romanji) are included as well.