Teach Yourself Beginner's Japanese Script (Teach Yourself Beginner's Scripts)

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Reader Reviews:

amazing book to get you started! (7/7 people found this helpful)

If like me you have always been interested in learning japanese but did not have a clue how to start, get this book!!

I was really suprised at how quickly I rememberd the kanji. this book really is fascinating, and I could not put it down! I feel much more confident in my approach to learning kanji now as this book explains the idea behind the kanji which i have found other books dont.

all i can say really is BUY THIS BOOK!! its so interesting and suprisingly easy!!! to understand and learn and actually remember!!

A brilliant resource (4/4 people found this helpful)

Ok, I've had this book for quite some time now and finally decided to review it. This book is a fantastic little resource for those who want to learn to read Japanese script. Which, is an important factor if you want to learn the language properly.

This book teaches you about Kanji and also the fundamentals of both hiragana and katagana. In simple and easy to follow activities as well as end of chapter tests.

However, if you want to learn about reading and writing Japanese - I do suggest other more indepth books. But for the absolute beginner, this is a good place to start.

Caution (13/13 people found this helpful)

First the good points. For learning kana (the phonetic scripts of hiragana and katakana) this book has good sections and exercises. It also has the best system for learning Kanji I've seen, not that i've seen them all. It builds up with simple nature derived Kanji and gruadually builds up. You won't find this an any textbook.

However, you will not learn the readings for Kanji which is a very important point. You will also not have very good ability at identifying the parts within kanji, vital to understand more complex ones.

Another point of note is that this book does not, nor pretend to, teach any Japanese. By using this book, even by the end you will not be able to produce even a simple sentence.

While I do reccommend this book, it is not by itself but as part of a wide range of books to use.

Excellent ! (4/4 people found this helpful)

From a total beginner to Japanese script, this book was great. It takes you through the very basic kanji first, giving great mnemonics to help you remeber them. It teaches you about compound Kanji also, and how they are made up. The book also takes you through Hiragana and Katakana with tables and exercises to help you remeber. It goes at a good pace and has little exercises and end of chapter tests. Overall a great buy !

Great introduction to Japanese reading and writing (9/9 people found this helpful)

This book introduces the beautiful and complex Japanese written language in a simple and basic manner. It won't take you too far but there are other books out there to do that. I was a complete beginner and the pace of this book is just perfect.
Buy it along with a CD-Rom for the basic spoken language side of things and take it nice and slow.

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