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"japanese ? easy...", a fun way to (try) to learn kanji...
you can even give signs on passing (japanese) trucks a go ! you'll be surprised...

"Okay if you know what you're looking for", I'm self teaching myself Japanese and Kanji definetly is a hard hurdle to master. While I've only so far used this book to learn Kanji (along with [...]), suffice it to say you need quite a few different methods/tools to learn this difficult aspect of Japanese language. While this book is helpful if you know what you are looking for (by looking back in the glossary for the corresponding Japanese romanji term), it's too much to just to go through and try to learn all of the words, unless you're looking for words you like, like love or whatever. Also, the pneumonics aren't the best in the world, but believe it or not it is actually more helpful to me with my kana then the kanji. While this may be a helpful addition to your collection, I'd say research a bit more before buying this book. If you do, just note that you'll definetly need more than this book if you want to become good at Kanji.

"Good for Learning Japanese, but Not Chinese", I am a student of both Japanese and Chinese. When I came across this book, I thought it would be fabulous to kill two birds with one stone since the description said that it had both Japanese and Chinese pronunciation. It does have pretty helpful Japanese pronunciation (although there should be hiragana to make it less confusing) but the Chinese pronunciation is from 2,000 years ago. How helpful is Chinese pronunciation from 2,000 years ago to a student learning modern colloquial Mandarin Chinese? I find the description to be very misleading since it has convinced many people that the pronunciation is modern Chinese.

Despite not being able to use this as a study aid for Chinese, it's still very helpful in learning Japanese. I don't use this as my primary way of learning kanji because the number of pictures can be overwhelming and confusing but it's a good reference guide. When using this book, just make sure to pace yourself.

"Good for beginners, but soon becomes limiting", This is a fun book to flip through, perhaps with younger learners of Japanese, but the visual method espoused by the author becomes somewhat forced and cumbersome for serious adult learners. A more thorough and systematic approach that breaks Kanji down into radicals such as the book by Henshall or Heisig is more useful.

Nathan Dummitt
author of Chinese Through Tone & Color

"A good source for learning the Japanese writing system", This book is really helpful for remembering Kanji, and it's got a section at the beginning for Hiragana and Katakana as well. Its mnemonics are creative, helpful, and an original way that makes 1,985 joyo kanji not seem so bad (though I think that this book doesn't have every single one of them.) I recommend this book to anyone learning Kanji for whatever reason.

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"A great buy for every Japanese students.", The bane to every Japanese student is kanji. Nobody likes to learn them, but they do make you look cool when you read them to friends. This book can easily teach you kanji if you spend a bit of time studying it.

"Requires practice", but it works, is a great addition to with Rosetta Stone or other materials

"Kanji me hole", It looks great, with nice clear friendly picture on the front, but as another reviewer said, when you bring it home and start to use it you see the problems. The kanji are arranged thematically, which is all well and good if this book is your primary textbook for kanji learning. But if you're taking classes somewhere else and you have a prescribed order to learn the kanji, its not very useful. Secondly, many of the mnemonics are fairly poor (although some are very useful), and thirdly, worst of all, the index is terrible. Many of the characters I tried to find weren't listed.

Didn't quite live up to it's promise.

"Great for kana, not so much for kanji", I enjoyed this book immensely. The pictures and images are fun and visually appealing, and the explainations of each part are facinating. But I must agree that as a learning tool, it was not very helpful. Mnemonics are usually very helpful for me, but whenever I came across a kanji I first saw in this book, I would recognize it, remember parts of the mnemonic, but compeltely forget what the whole kanji meant!

I did however find this book VERY helpful for remembering the kana. In this case, Rowley's mnuemonics helped a great deal.

"At Last, A Fun Way to Memorize and Enjoy the Kanji", If you really want to get a handle on Japanese reading and writing, you're going to want to tackle at least the 1,945 Joyo Kanji (with the 1,006 essential characters and the other 939 general use characters). That might take awhile...While starting off with a book like "Guide to Reading & Writing Japanese: Third Edition" by Kenneth Henshall and getting a kanji dictionary is a good starting point, they probably won't help you actually retain the kanji very much or make visual connections.

Understanding "radicals" is an important part of learning kanji. For instance, one common component of kanji means "sun", another means "moon". These two components together make the kanji for "clear" or "bright'. Knowing these radicals definitely improves comprehension of how kanji are constructed and what their meanings are. However, there are so many kanji to remember! Relying on the radicals alone isn't usually enough to recall the meanings some of the more complex kanji. That's where this book comes in.

Kanji Pict-O-Graphix contains mnemonic, visual aids for all of the hiragana, katakana, and 1,225 of the kanji. "Mnemonic" is just a fancy way of saying "mental memory aid"; you probably have used such implements when you make flash cards, or try to use a made-up name (like "Roy G. Biv" for remembering the colors of the rainbow: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet) in order to remember facts. Many of the pictures in this book draw their inspiration from the radicals; some take more artistic liberties to convey the actual meaning of the kanji. The type of art used in Michael Rowley's drawings are an interesting, black and white blocky style. The pictures look very modern, with clean lines and shadows in all of them. The hiragana and katakana's drawings are based off of their shape and their sound. For example, the drawing for the katakana "te" is of a telephone pole (emphasis on the sound at the beginning of the word). After the kana, the kanji are sorted into 11 chapters: World, Food, Animals, People, Body, Spirit, Power, Learn, Tools, Places, and Journey. Each of these chapters contains subsections; Chapter 1: World has divisions relating to topics such as the sun, moon, the day, time, weather, elements, landforms, etc. Every kanji entry is accompanied with a meaning, reference number, the kanji itself, the mnemonic picture, a sentence helping to explain the meaning, and and what radicals are contained in the kanji. An index of kanji sorted by pronunciation appears in the back.

Aside from being a helpful kanji-learning tool, this book is simply interesting to look at. Even for someone not intending to master the kanji, this would be an excellent book for anyone fond of art and/or Japanese culture.