This book enables you to recognize the 500 Most Essential Japanese Kanji easily--and to memorize their readings and meanings quickly and easily This book teaches an Innovative new Method to learn the basic 500 Japanese characters--teaching you how to recognize the Kanji easily and to remember their readings and meanings.
A CD-Rom software program showing you how to write each Kanji character Native spe.
Key features of this book include: Drawings and stories to create mental associations for the Characters that stick in the brain and allow you to recall their meanings and readings.
It can be used in conjunction with any Japanese textbook to learn the important Kanji Characters upon which the language is based.
It also provides a unique interactive software program showing you how to write each character and allowing you to write it yourself on screen This book can be used by anyone, and requires no prior knowledge of the Japanese language.
The CD-Rom that is included provides audio recordings by Japanese native speakers to perfect your pronunciation.
And similar mnemonic strategies are provided for Learning the different pronunciations or "readings" of the characters.
This revolutionary new Method has been tried by many thousands of students, and it really works Using a systematic building-block approach to written Japanese, this beginner Kanji book also shows you how more complicated Characters are constructed from simpler elements. mnemonics also dramatically helps students to write Kanji as well.
By associating an easily-remembered visual image and story with each Kanji, the learner is able to commit the Characters to long-term memory far more easily and quickly than ever before.
The new science of mnemonics has changed all that.
This Method is extremely slow, tedious and time-consuming.
Traditionally, the ability to learn Kanji Characters was accomplished purely by rote memorization.
Learning to read Japanese and write Japanese requires knowing hundreds of Kanji.
This book enables you to recognize the 500 Most Essential Japanese Kanji easily--and to memorize their readings and meanings quickly and easily This book teaches an Innovative new Method to learn the basic 500 Japanese characters--teaching you how to recognize the Kanji easily and to remember their readings and meanings
