Intermediate Kanji Book Vol. 1

ISBN-10: 4893583565
ISBN-13: 978-4893583567
Release Date: 1997/08

This is by far the best book I have found for systematically studying (learning) Kanji. Let me state my brief credentials so that you can have some confidence in my review. I graduated from university with a major in Japanese and Spanish for Education, K-12 (in the US). I taught Japanese in public schools, elementary, junior high and high school, as well as tutored college students. I studied abroad at a school that focused primarily on teaching Japanese (all in Japanese), and I am currently living and working in Japan. Japanese is my personal hobby, and I spend approximately 20 hours a week studying, reading, and writing Japanese (specifically for increasing my knowledge of the language).

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Language: Japanese and English

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Basic Kanji Book Vol. 1

ISBN-10: 4893580914
ISBN-13: 978-4893580917
Basic Kanji Book was compiled by four Japanese editors (Chieko Kano, Yuri Shimizu, Hiroko Takenaka, and Eriko Ishii) for the purpose of teaching the first 500 most basic kanji. These 500 kanji are divided up into 22 separate lessons. Each lesson is thematically and grammatically organized for higher connection rate in the learning process. Lessons include Kanji for time, Kanji at the Zoo, Kanji for Adjectives, Kanji for Verbs, and many more. The text is written to the goal of preparing the student for higher levels of Kanji learning by laying out the foundations that lead to the understanding of its inner workings. Though the text is complete in itself for accomplishing many basic day-to-day tasks in written Japanese.

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Language: English

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Basik Kanji Book Vol. 2

Publisher: Bonjinsha Co. Ltd (1989)
ASIN: B000IDHNU4

Basic Kanji volumes　2 contain a total of 500 kanji; vol. 2 covers numbers 252-500. This book has 22 lessons and can be used as a workbook. There are many exercises to practice reading and writing kanji, including short passages. I like how the book is organized around themes. The content is very practical for adapting to everyday life in Japan - there are photographs of actual signs, and instructions for household appliances. I recently passed JLPT 3 and I find the material in this book appropriate for my level. However, I jumped straight into this book without studying from the first volume, so there are some kanji appearing in the lessons that I don't know yet.

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Language: English and Japanese

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Master Japanese by Ear

Publisher: Bonjinsha Co., Ltd. (1995)
Language: Japanese
ISBN-10: 4893583077
ISBN-13: 978-4893583079
ASIN: B000R4TDGQ

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Type: PDF
Language: Japanese

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