Название: The Kanji Handbook
Автор: Vee D.
Издательство: Tuttle
Жанр: Японский язык
Год издания: 2013
Страниц: 1189
ISBN: 978-1-4629-1063-2
Язык: Английский
Формат: PDF
Размер: 15 Мб

Linguistic scholars largely agree that Japanese is the most difficult second language to learn. With four different writing systems, those eager to learn Japanese have a long and demanding journey to undergo. Thus, the Kanji Handbook was conceived to map out learning strategies to systematically guide learners from beginner to advanced level in Kanji literacy. Unique learning tools were designed for this book to resolve the many aggravations commonly encountered by Kanji learners. All 1,945 Joyo Kanji characters—the most commonly used Kanji characters as officially prescribed by the Japanese Ministry of Education since 1981—can be learned through this book. The Kanji Handbook was fashioned to offer an end to some of the most discouraging problems facing those who study Kanji characters. The biggest struggle in learning the 1,945 Kanji characters is the mission of memorizing them, their shades of meaning, myriad pronunciations and compounds. To encourage memory retention, all Kanji characters in this book appear as KanjiHybrids, or the combination of a Kanji character and its English meaning to form one, integral and indivisible unit. In addition, the pioneering concept of Veemuenics—where similar looking Kanji characters are placed as KanjiHybrids in a rhyming English sentence or phrase—will further help learners remember each Kanji character and the slight differences between them. For example: