Beginning This beginner's workbook helps students learn both hiragana and katakana writing systems. After learning hiragana writing, students move on to katakana. Then they write sentences containing both hiragana and katakana. This description may be from another edition of this product.
The first step to learning Japanese is to learn kana, both hiragana and katakana. It is just like learning the Alphabet. The more difficult Kanji comes only after mastering the two basic writing systems. All quality Japanese books will use a kana base, rather than a romaji (English writing of Japanese) base.Kana learning is incredibly simple, and is basically learning the strokes, then getting a good workbook for practice...
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Make no mistake, this book has one purpose and one purpose only: to show you how to write the japanese characters within hiragana and katakana. It has ample space to practise, and explains in what order the strokes should be for proper writing.I found it refreshing to use to remember what each character actually means and would recommend it as a good supplement aid to any japanese language course. (personal or class)
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I work for a Japanese company here in the US, and learning Japanese for me is essential to my job. I not only see print, but handwriting on a daily basis. This book is fantastic!It shows the reader exactly how to make the strokes, in what order the strokes are made, and implied relation between Hiragana and Katakana. This is truly the first book to buy when learning Japanese. You must be able to identify the characters...
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I began learning the Japanese language not long ago. Although one can learn romaji, if you go to Japan, well, they write in Japanese. So, I figured I should start learning kana (and then kanji) as soon as possible. I looked through our library, and found this book. It has been incredibly helpful in learning kana. Be warned, this is not a book that teachs grammer or any such thing, for that purpose buy a different...
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We used this book to learn hiragana and katakana after moving to Japan six months ago. We have two adults and two kids (ages 6 & 9) and all of us can now read and write both syllabaries. We're not fast, but we can do it! We copied the pages to use like worksheets and that worked out well, since just writing something once in a workbook is not adequate. The syllables are not taught in Japanese order, but in order of...
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