The Kanji Learner's Course Green Book: Writing Practice Workbook for The Kodansha Kanji Learner's Course (The Kanji Learner's Course Series) - Softcover

Conning, Andrew Scott

Softcover

ISBN 10: 069272799X ISBN 13: 9780692727997

Publisher: Lexica Global Language Systems, 2016

Synopsis

The Kanji Learner's Course (KLC) Green Book, together with the KLC Graded Reading Sets and KLC Wall Chart, form the the supporting toolkit for users of the widely praised Kodansha Kanji Learner's Course. The Green Book offers the most convenient way to practice the writing of all 2,300 kanji in the Course. Even today when most learners are focused on learning to read kanji rather than to write them, handwriting practice remains essential. Integrating hand-eye coordination with the kinesthetic experience of each kanji's stroke sequence, handwriting improves your ability to recognize each kanji, grasp intuitively how it is put together, and distinguish it from lookalikes. Designed to help you use your study time most efficiently, this simple little workbook contains just the right quantity of writing spaces -- four large spaces followed by seven small spaces -- to give you enough practice for each character. It also offers you:

• Convenience: Following the Course sequence entry by entry, the Green Book makes it easy for you to structure the right amount of handwriting practice into your study routine, experience a sense of creative accomplishment, and exploit the Course's full value.
• A broad overview of groups of related kanji: Displaying forty kanji per spread, it also allows you to survey the Course's graphically related groupings, consider the similarities and differences among nearby characters, and fully absorb how each kanji's unique features and composition relate to its meaning.
• A good solution for mastering stroke order: Each entry contains both a guide character and tracing characters, but deliberately excludes stroke order to allow you to develop an independent mastery of kanji composition. The main Course book provides stroke order diagrams for when you need them, but this will not be very often provided you follow the Course's graphically cumulative sequence and practice writing every kanji as you go.
• Guidance for mastering proper stroke forms: Both the guide characters and the practice squares are cross-hatched to help you achieve precise form.
• Savings: Standard genkôyôshi manuscript paper typically costs around US$7-12 online. The Green Book is priced toward the bottom of this range while offering unique convenience for users of the Kanji Learner's Course.

About this title

From the Author

I created the kanji course because it was the kind of tool I wished had existed when I was studying kanji myself. I sincerely hope that it will help you on your way toward a more direct and profound understanding of Japan and its people. Supporting products: In addition to the KLC Green Book, I've also created a KLC Graded Reading Sets series (bit.ly/2hqs6Fp) and KLC Wall Chart (bit.ly/2gEV8kU) to support users of the course. I hope you'll make yourself the proud owner of the whole kit! Website for KLC users: I warmly welcome you to use keystojapanese.com to track your progress with the KLC, form study groups, ask questions, etc. For kana learners: If you're working on mastering kana, do take full advantage of my unpresuming The Ultimate Kana Wall Chart: A Visual Guide to Japanese Phonetic Writing (bit.ly/2hBYeq8). Connect with me at asc349 [at] mail [dot] harvard [dot] edu. Sincere thanks for your interest, and best wishes for your studies.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lexica Global Language Systems
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 069272799X
• ISBN 13: 9780692727997
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 120