Comments on: shopping spree http://japanese.nearlythere.com/2005/08/02/shopping-spree Notes from my self-study and my Japanese lessons Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:47:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: monku@monku.jp http://japanese.nearlythere.com/2005/08/02/shopping-spree#comment-106 Tue, 04 Oct 2005 05:21:09 +0000 http://japanese.nearlythere.com/2005/08/02/shopping-spree#comment-106 When you get past the hiragana and katakana and move onto the Kanji, I bought a ton of expensive books with little progress before I got Kanji Starter (Paperback) by Daiki Kusuya..its on amazon...and its indespensible When you get past the hiragana and katakana and move onto the Kanji, I bought a ton of expensive books with little progress before I got Kanji Starter (Paperback) by Daiki Kusuya..its on amazon…and its indespensible

]]> by: Learning Japanese » Blog Archive » hiragana quiz http://japanese.nearlythere.com/2005/08/02/shopping-spree#comment-26 Mon, 15 Aug 2005 12:33:35 +0000 http://japanese.nearlythere.com/2005/08/02/shopping-spree#comment-26 [...] recordings. and i knew the hiragana from practicing with my handy-dandy flashcards, and the tools mentioned before. i’d say about 60% of my answers were process of elimin [...] […] recordings. and i knew the hiragana from practicing with my handy-dandy flashcards, and the tools mentioned before. i’d say about 60% of my answers were process of elimin […]

]]> by: heather http://japanese.nearlythere.com/2005/08/02/shopping-spree#comment-10 Thu, 04 Aug 2005 19:41:20 +0000 http://japanese.nearlythere.com/2005/08/02/shopping-spree#comment-10 i noticed they don't have the let learn hirigana books in the US amazon site (but they have them in the UK site). i'll try getting them when i get back to ireland. there's a good bookstore in dublin: modern languages on westland row that i'm keen on visiting. hopefully they will have them there so i can look through them. thanks for the tip! i noticed they don’t have the let learn hirigana books in the US amazon site (but they have them in the UK site). i’ll try getting them when i get back to ireland. there’s a good bookstore in dublin: modern languages on westland row that i’m keen on visiting. hopefully they will have them there so i can look through them.

thanks for the tip!

]]> by: Nuno Barreto http://japanese.nearlythere.com/2005/08/02/shopping-spree#comment-9 Tue, 02 Aug 2005 08:55:52 +0000 http://japanese.nearlythere.com/2005/08/02/shopping-spree#comment-9 Two books I highly recommend to learn the kanas, both written by Yasuko Kosaka Mitamura, are: Let's Learn Hiragana: First Book of Japanese Writing Let's Learn Katakana: Second Book of Japanese Writing They also have one for kanji (Let's Learn Kanji), but I didn't get there yet, so I cant say if its good. But some people I know say it is good, especially because it builds up from strokes, to radicals and components, to 250 basic kanji which are themselves components of other kanji. Two books I highly recommend to learn the kanas, both written by Yasuko Kosaka Mitamura, are:

Let’s Learn Hiragana: First Book of Japanese Writing
Let’s Learn Katakana: Second Book of Japanese Writing

They also have one for kanji (Let’s Learn Kanji), but I didn’t get there yet, so I cant say if its good. But some people I know say it is good, especially because it builds up from strokes, to radicals and components, to 250 basic kanji which are themselves components of other kanji.

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