Intermediate Kanji Book

Kanji Books #3

by Chieko Kano

wraps, 337 pp

Genres: Japanese Literature, Nonfiction, Japan

337 pages, Paperback

First published March 20, 1993

Reviews

[Alistair · Rating 2 out of 5]

The first two books in this collection are excellent: well organised and straightforward. This book is a bit step in terms of complexity and frankly, a bit of a mess. I spent most of my time flicking from one end of the book to the other to look up stroke order, on yomi kun yomi etc. Very frustrating.

[Brenn Timoteo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Dear authors. You had one simple and successful formula: do the exact same thing you did with Basic Kanji Book 1 and 2, but you the decided to make your book a way less useful resource. If there is anything that annoys me about this book is the kanji pattern index at the end, which helps no one and contributes absolutely nothing to the lessons. It could be a different book or just not exist and it would be the same for the book's lessons. I don't know who came up with the idea to create a bunch of lessons with the list at the end of "kanji studied in this lesson" and then place the introduction to each kanji as an index and ordered by radical. I couldn't care less about how many kanjis have the same frigging radical if I am not studying those other 5 kanjis! I am studying the 20 kanjis in each lesson, 20! Why did they think mixing kanjis from lesson 1 with kanjis from lesson 10 is a good idea? Where on earth is the common sense in that? If I am studying 20 kanjis in whatever lesson, the last thing I need is to be presented another 20 kanjis from another 1o random different lessons. If the lessons were organized per radical, well, that would have been a good way to introduce the kanjis.

[Moazbellah · Rating 5 out of 5]

To me it's absolutely the best text book to learn Kanji. It didn't only teach me the Kanji but also how compound words are formed and used and the different connotations and nuances of similar compound words. It also trains you to read all kinds of written material in all fields. Really a great textbook!
You will definitely want to read volume 2.

[Julie · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is really a helpful item when learning or reviewing the Kanji for more intermediate learners. I will definitely be returning to this work next year some time.