Learning Japanese Kanji Practice Book Volume 1: (JLPT Level N5 & AP Exam) The Quick and Easy Way to Learn the Basic Japanese Kanji - Softcover

Sato Ph.D., Eriko

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804844933 ISBN 13: 9780804844932

Publisher: Tuttle Publishing, 2015

Synopsis

The quick and easy way to learn the basic Japanese kanji!

Learning Japanese Kanji Practice Book is intended for beginning students or experienced speakers who need to practice their written Japanese. Kanji are an essential part of the Japanese language and together with kana (hiragana and katakana) comprise written Japanese.

This book presents the most commonly used kanji characters. All the kanji and related vocabulary words in this book are those that students are expected to know for Level 5 of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test. (JLPT). Characters that appear in the AP Japanese Language and Culture Exam are flagged. Readings, meanings, and common compounds are presented. The correct method of writing each character is indicated and practice boxes with strokes that can be traced are provided, along with empty boxes for freehand writing practice.

Lots of exercises are included to give students the opportunity to practice writing sentences containing the Kanji. Indexes at the back allow you to look up the characters by their readings and English meanings.

This kanji book includes:

• Step-by-step stroke order diagrams for each character.
• Individual boxes with grid lines to practice writing characters.
• Extra printable practice grids
• Words and phrases using each kanji.
• Romanizations (romanji) to help identify and pronounce every word.

About this title

About the Author

Dr. Eriko Sato is Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She teaches Japanese language, linguistics and pedagogy as well as translation studies and acquisition of Asian languages. She serves as the adviser for teacher education program for Japanese. Dr. Sato developed numerous courses including the first online Japanese course at her University. She has also authored or co-authored several books for teaching and learning Japanese including Contemporary Japanese, Japanese Demystified, Japanese for Dummies, Complete Japanese Grammar, Basic Japanese, Basic Japanese: Introduction of the Structure of Japanese, Essential Japanese Grammar, My First Japanese Kanji Book, and Learning Japanese Kanji.

Edition details

• Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0804844933
• ISBN 13: 9780804844932
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 128