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.
This handy book teaches you a new mnemonics-based method to read and write the 430 highest-frequency kanji characters.
"Follow the author on his odyssey from a 24-year-old Midwesterner unable to speak a word of Japanese as he recounts his initial struggles to gain functional fluency, conquer kanji, and ultimately achieve sufficient mastery over the language to become a Japanese teacher and tran…
This is the first book devoted to exploring issues of learning written Japanese, focusing on the challenges the writing system poses for the second language learner. It weaves together previous research on Japanese second language acquisition and kanji learning with original stu…
Being a successful speaker of a given language involves control of the meaning and use of vocabulary items, taking in their lexical content (what phenomena they refer to), combinatorial behaviour (what items they occur with) and situational characteristics (e.g. as colloquial or…
Being a successful speaker of a given language involves control of the meaning and use of vocabulary items, taking in their lexical content (what phenomena they refer to), combinatorial behaviour (what items they occur with) and situational characteristics (e.g. as colloquial or…
Being a successful speaker of a given language involves control of the meaning and use of vocabulary items, taking in their lexical content (what phenomena they refer to), combinatorial behaviour (what items they occur with) and situational characteristics (e.g. as colloquial or…