Free eBooks Japanese Kanji & Kana: A Complete Guide To The Japanese Writing System Available To Downloads

                
              
Free eBooks 
Japanese Kanji & Kana: A Complete Guide To The Japanese Writing System Available To Downloads
This comprehensive book helps you learn the 92 basic Kana characters and 2,136 standard Kanji characters.Complete, compact and authoritative—this Japanese language book provides all the information needed to learn kanji and kana, including the 92 basic hiragana and katakana phonetic symbols (known collectively as Japanese Kana) and the 2,136 standard Joyo Kanji characters that every Japanese person learns in school. This new and completely revised edition reflects recent changes made to the official Joyo kanji list by the Japanese government. The kana and kanji are presented in an easy and systematic way that helps you learn them quickly and retain what you have learned and improve your mastery of the Japanese language. The ability to read Japanese and write Japanese is an essential skill for any student and will build on their previous knowledge and improve on their overall capacity to learn Japanese. A concise index allows you to look up the Kanji in three different ways (so the book also serves as a Japanese Kanji dictionary) and extra spaces are provided to allow you to practice writing Japanese. Japanese Kanji and Kana contains: All 2,136 official Joyo kanji with readings and definitions. Characters are graded by their JLPT examination levels. Up to 5 useful vocabulary compounds for each kanji. Brush and pen cursive forms as well as printed forms. 19 tables summarizing key information about the characters. Kanji look–up indexes by radicals, stroke counts and readings.
Paperback: 424 pages
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing; Revised, Revised edition (April 10, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 4805311169
ISBN-13: 978-4805311165
Product Dimensions:  6 x 1 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:  4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #409,548 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)   #232 in Books > Reference > Words, Language & Grammar > Alphabet   #3291 in Books > Reference > Dictionaries & Thesauruses > Foreign Language Dictionaries & Thesauruses   #5082 in Books > Reference > Foreign Language Study & Reference
I'm no longer an active learner of the Japanese language, nor any longer attempting to maintain literacy in that language which uses the most difficult writing system of all modern languages I'm aware of. However, I just took this most recent edition off the shelf in our library and can't refrain from posting a review.This book is the closest thing to a complete rundown for the beginner that I've encountered. We all imagine the Sino-Japanese characters, the kanji, to be the main thing and that is certainly understandable. However, Spahn and Hadamitzky give the beginner the whole story. Those of us working on our own need the whole story, since acquiring literacy in Japanese makes such heavy demands on our memory, analytical and combinatory powers.Sections (visible in the "search inside feature", but I have comments):I Romanization:There are two systems in common use, kunrei-shiki and Hepburn. Students should be aware of this at the outset. A transliteration table is included.II Kana syllabaries:The chief and resounding superiority of this book over competing works is this section on the kana syllabaries. I do not know of a comparable work which includes even a substantial part of the information offered here.There is brief history of both kana (such stuff as hiragana's origins in "onna-de"; they were used by women; one might compare early scripting of Yiddish by-and-for women) and tables showing the kanji from which each was derived. The "alphabetical" or dictionary look-up order as well as the older "iroha" order are displayed. Stroke order is demonstrated. Combinations and the various ways of writing long vowels are discussed fully but concisely. The authors tell us what they are currently used for.
Kanji can cause pain. Those tiny symbols with multiple pronunciations and an often dizzying array of strokes and shapes scourge the stalwart and whittle down the weary. Those traveling this pictorial path beware! The Kanji do not give up their secrets easily. Not to mention that seekers of fluency will require at least some knowledge of over 2,000 characters and shapes. Some differ by as little as a single stroke. All are immensely beautiful and they deeply reward the persistent. But learning Kanji takes more than rote memorization. It takes a lifestyle change. Many have nonetheless succeeded.Cheap melodrama aside (though more will surely follow), the Kanji remain one of highest hurdles for fluency in one of the world's most difficult languages. Those who have some knowledge know that they represent far more than letters. In fact, they are not letters, they are units of meaning that combine subunits of meaning. They can express ideas and concepts. Kanji are little salads of meaning. Everything said about the difficulty of learning them is true, but good tools can make the punishing task far easier. The justifiably classic text "Kanji & Kana" will spare many people frustration. After repeated use, many may find themselves clutching this book to their bosom and spewing endless tears of joy.Anyone new to Kanji should read the incredible introduction that includes so much useful and time-saving information that beginners will nearly feel unworthy. As the book's title suggests, the Kana, which includes Hiragana and Katakana, also receive more than adequate coverage. Sound and stroke order charts, punctuation, usage, long and short vowels and numerous other fascinating tidbits and necessary information lurk here.
This book is a must-have resource for anyone learning Japanese because it is so versatile:* get a detailed explanation of the Japanese writing system* look up Kanji through a number of indexes* learn Kanji in a logical orderIn my opinion, the most important use of this book is for learning Kanji. As a student of Japanese who has mastered the Kana, you want to get started on the Kanji, but you want to learn them efficiently and without wasting time on Kanji like "convex" that you'll never need in real life.What this book does, apart from the detailed description of the writing system itself and a few pages on the Kana, is present all 2000+ Jōyō Kanji in a logical order in which to learn them, going from simple to complex (e. g. 日 and 月 before 明) and from frequent to infrequent. This makes this book the ideal companion for your Japanese studies, better than "Remembering the Kanji" in my opinion, because you don't need to complete the whole book in order to learn the Kanji for lesson 1 of your textbook. The Kanji that come up early in textbooks will come up early in this book and the rare Kanji have been relegated to the back, where they belong. Even after you are proficient in Japanese, you won't want to chuck out this book, because it also makes for a great Kanji reference book, in which you can look up the characters you may have forgotten.Each character is introduced with full info: stroke order, radical and composition, ON and KUN pronunciations along with different meanings that these imply (very useful for me!), as well as several example words or phrases that can be created with these Kanji.
Kanji en Vinetas 1 / Kanji in Mangaland 1: Curso Basico De Kanji a Traves Del Manga: Grados 1 y 2 / Basic Kanji Course Through Manga: Grades 1 and 2 (Spanish Edition) Japanese Kanji & Kana: A Complete Guide to the Japanese Writing System Japanese Kanji Flash Cards Kit, Volume 1: Kanji 1-200: JLPT Beginning Level (Audio CD Included) Japanese Kanji Flash Cards, Volume 1: Kanji 1-200: JLPT Beginning Level (Downloadable Material Included) Writing : Novel Writing Mastery, Proven And Simple Techniques To Outline-, Structure- And Write A Successful Novel ! - novel writing, writing fiction, writing skills - Remembering the Kanji 2: A Systematic Guide to Reading Japanese Characters Bento Box Cookbook: Delicious Japanese Cooking Recipes For Lunch And Dinner (Bento Box Recipes, Japanese Cooking, Japanese Recipes, Japanese Bento, Sushi, Rice Cooker) Japanese Hiragana & Katakana for Beginners: First Steps to Mastering the Japanese Writing System (CD-ROM Included) Japanese Hiragana & Katakana for Beginners: First Steps to Mastering the Japanese Writing System [Downloadable Content Included] Youdunit Whodunit!: How To Write Mystery, Thriller and Suspense Books (Writing Skills, Writing Fiction, Writing Instruction, Writing a Book) Jis-Kanji Character Recognition: Featuring the Gaiji Method/Book and Disk (Vnr Computer Library) Kodansha's Essential Kanji Dictionary (Kodansha Dictionaries) Japanese Slanguage: A Fun Visual Guide to Japanese Terms and Phrases (English and Japanese Edition) Genki: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese II [Second Edition] (Japanese Edition) (English and Japanese Edition) Beyond Polite Japanese: A Dictionary of Japanese Slang and Colloquialisms (Power Japanese) Confessions of a Japanese Linguist - How to Master Japanese: (The Journey to Fluent, Functional, Marketable Japanese) Genkou Youshi Manuscript Paper - Notebook for Japanese Writing: Genko Yoshi paper 200 pages in 8.5"x11" notebook for composition, sakubun and practising Japanese handwriting Reading & Writing Chinese Traditional Character Edition: A Comprehensive Guide to the Chinese Writing System Non Fiction Writing Templates: 44 Tips to Create Your Own Non Fiction Book (Writing Templates, Writing Non Fiction, Kindle Publishing) Fiction Writing Templates: 30 Tips to Create Your Own Fiction Book (Writing Templates, Fiction Writing, Kindle Publishing) 