Remembering the Kanji, Vol. 1: A Complete Course on How Not to Forget the Meaning and Writing of Japanese Characters (English and Japanese Edition)

Beneath the notorious inconsistencies in the way the Japanese language has come to pronounce the characters it received from China in the fifth century, there lies a solid and rather ample base of coherent patterns. Discovering these patterns can reduce to a minimum the time spent in brute memorization of sounds unrelated to written forms. Volume II of REMEMBERING THE KANJI takes you step by step through the varieties of phonetic pattern and offers helpful hints for learning kanji that resist systematization. Remembering the Kanji III aims at raising proficiency in writing and reading Japanese to the level of 3,000 kanji. Using the methods of volumes I and II, which have helped thousands of students to teach themselves written Japanese, this volume breaks new ground in presenting a systematic selection and organization of kanji needed for reading and writing at an advanced level. From Absolute Beginners Dreading The Thought Of Acquiring Literacy In Japanese To More Advanced Students Looking For Some Relief To The Constant Frustration Of Forgetting How To Remember The Kanji, Once You Have Cracked The Covers Of These Books You Will Never Be Able To Look At The Kanji With The Same Eyes Again. The two Japanese syllabaries known as hiragana and katakana (or collectively, as the kana) originated as stylized versions of Chinese characters used to represent the sounds of Japanese without any reference to the original meaning of those characters. v. 1. A complete course on how not to forget the meaning and writing of Japanese characters v. 2. A systematic guide to reading Japanese characters v. 3. Writing and reading Japanese characters for upper-level proficiency. 491 pages. A brand new looking copy in spite of its age.