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 ...

This is a clear, simple and compact guide to colloquial, everyday Japanese.Acquire basic proficiency in spoken Japanese.A streamlined, efficient approach.Perfect for self-learners or classroom use.Includes kanji and kana.Essential Japanese Vocabulary teaches all the Japanese grammar you need to speak and understand simple spoken Japanese. It covers only what is essential which provides an...

Essential Japanese Kanji uses a natural approach to learning the most basic kanji encountered in everyday situations in Japan.This new edition is packed with fun quizzes and useful exercises for those wishing to improve their Japanese ability. It has been repackaged in a more compact, value-for-money size while losing none of the content that has made it a long-selling favorite. Key features of Essential Japanese Kanji include:

This massive text is the ultimate authoritative book on learning Japanese Kanji.The Kanji Handbook presents an ingenious and tested method to learn the 1,945 kanji characters taught in all Japanese language schools. Through the use of "KanjiHybrids"—a concept invented by the author—learners of Kanji and taught to link the characters mentally with English words to form one integral and indivisible unit. This innovative mnemonic device has been proven to tra...

Manga University's award-winning Kanji de Manga series continues with this fifth volume of original comic artwork designed to teach readers how to identify and write the most common Japanese kanji ideographs.Like the previous volumes, this one is packed with 80 essential kanji that Japanese students are required to learn by the time they graduate from sixth grade. Each page features its own comic strip, kanji pronunciation guide, stroke order, and English explanations.

Learning to recognize and pronounce the basic hiragana and katakana phonetic alphabets is the first step in studying the Japanese language.This set of 200 flash cards along with accompanying booklet, wall charts, and online audio recordings contains everything you need to quickly gain mastery of the two Japanese syllabaries and is a great way to learn Japanese. Frequent review is the key to memorizing the characters, and these cards are easily carried in a pocket o...

Essential Japanese Grammar is an indispensable study guide for students of the Japanese language at all levels.Long the standard in Japanese language education, it provides clear, jargon-free explanations of how Japanese grammar works and offers hundreds of example sentences. An essential handbook for self-study or the classroom, students will find that a strong foundation in grammar is vital to those wishing to learn Japanese.Essential Japanes...

Manga University's award-winning Kanji de Manga series continues with this fourth volume of original comic artwork designed to teach readers how to identify and write the most common Japanese kanji ideographs.Like the previous volumes, this one is packed with 80 essential kanji that Japanese students are required to learn by the time they enter middle school. Each page features its own comic strip, kanji pronunciation guide, stroke order, and English explanations.

Manga University's award-winning Kanji de Manga series is the fun, easy way to learn Japanese! This special edition gives students their first look at yojijukugo—idioms that are written with just four kanji characters. Learn the Japanese equivalents of such familiar phrases as "Time is Money," "In Perfect Harmony," "High on the Hog" and dozens more. Each page features an original comic illustration, as well as a easy-to-follow breakdown of the four kanji, explaining how t...

Every serious student of Japanese needs a reliable and user-friendly dictionary in their collection.Tuttle Concise Japanese Dictionary, now with 30% more content, is a completely updated dictionary designed for students and business people who are living in Japan and using the Japanese language on a daily basis. Its greatest advantage is that it contains recent idiomatic expressions which have become popular in the past several years and which are not foun...

Many students dutifully memorize the simple English equivalents that are usually given for Japanese words-with the result that they speak poor Japanese. Effective communication requires an understanding of the unique usages of Japanese vocabulary items, which often differ greatly from those of their English "equivalents." Until now, one of the biggest problems has been the lack of adequate reference materials on Japanese usage. This book fills the gap by concisely explaining 300 troublesom...

Can you imagine what it is like to live in a flowerpot and confuse one animal with another? Our chatty little plants Basil, Rosemary and the sisters know all too well the problems and fun it causes. This is for bilingual children and others wanting to read a dual language text in English and Japanese with illustrations.The bilingual story is presented twice. In the first part, the parallel Japanese text contains just hiragana and katakana characters. In the second part, simple Kanj...