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| Jôyô 96 . . . teaching Kana and the Japanese Ministry of Education's Jôyô Kanji since 1996 | ||
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This is a great book, with a really rock bottom price that we wanted to offer to our viewers at reduced prices. It requires you already understand the kana, are eager to learn kanji, and have some basic understanding of both written and spoken grammer. This is our top recommendation. Here's a quote: "My research also disclosed the fact that one-fourth of the characters in general use in Japanese writing and printing occur in three-fourths of the most frequently occuring words in the spoken and written languages." - The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power. |
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Jôyô 96 uses Kenneth Henshall's A Guide To Remembering The Japanese Characters (below) as the final authority for questions of Jôyô Kanji etymology (character evolution). I continuously enjoy this book. Each radical is cross-indexed to the page of the Kanji it comes from. The original shape is given, and the meaning intended by those early Chinese inventors is fully detailed with great scholarship, and enjoyment in reading. Much of the unfinished portions of this web site can be studied from this text if cross-referenced with A Guide To Reading & Writing Japanese, as Professor Henshall's masterpiece lacks only stroke order. I cannot overemphasize how helpful this book will be in the mastery of Kanji. | ||
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As Jôyô 96's publisher, I give the highest recommendations for the Learn Japanese series below. In fact, this is the same series I've used with three different Japanese tutors, and I own all four volumes, including the tapes for one of them. It is currently the choice of text by prestigious language teaching schools such as the Boston Language Institute. This series begins by introducing the kana, working into Kanji, and by volume IV is basically conversational, as well as having mastered the majority of the Kyôiku Kanji. The text has numerous cultural and situational explanations, and by volume III and IV, uses very natural and common Japanese expressions: | ||
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| Learn Japanese : New College Text Vol 1 | Paperback | |
| Learn Japanese : New College Text Vol 1 | Audio-Cassette | |
| Learn Japanese : New College Text Vol 2 | Paperback | |
| Learn Japanese : New College Text Vol 2 | Audio-Cassette | |
| Learn Japanese : New College Text Vol 3 | Paperback | |
| Learn Japanese : New College Text Vol 3 | Audio-Cassette | |
| Learn Japanese : New College Text Vol 4 | Paperback | |
| Learn Japanese : New College Text Vol 4 | Audio-Cassette | |
Jôyô 96 refers to A Guide To Reading & Writing Japanese as the authority for questions pertaining to proper stroke order. This text illustrates the stroke order of the Kyôiku Kanji set necessary to master the 1st through 6th grades of Japanese elementary education. It was also the basis of the Japanese WordMage software program developed by Lava Software in Australia: | ||
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| A Guide To Reading & Writing Japanese | hardcover | |
The Basic Japanese-English Dictionary is the perfect dictionary for someone relatively new to learning the written language. Everytime you look up a new word, example sentences abound which use the word in sentences whose grammer is easilly mastered in the first two volumes of Learn Japanese (above). Other Kanji used in the example sentences are frequently those you have already studied on Jôyô 96. This method of looking up the meaning of a word entrenches it into the brain. | ||
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| Basic Japanese-English Dictionary: Kiso Nihongo Gakushu Jiten | Paperback | |
Reading Japanese provides superior content for the web for mastering the Kana scripts. The Katakana lessons on this web site have been, and Hiragana lessons shall be, adapted for the World Wide Web from this book: | ||
| Reading Japanese | paperback | |
| Reading Japanese | hardcover | |
| Reading Japanese | audio-cassette | |
Dr. Andrew Nelson's Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary is a long standing traditional reference text for those who are capable of reading Japanese. It was the source of many of the example compounds found on Jôyô 96. Tuttle has since published The New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary, which is based on what is now called Dr. Nelson's Classic Edition. It is hoped to be an updated version which cleans out some of the compound words no longer in use. | ||
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| The Modern Reader's Japanese - English Character Dictionary (Nelson) | Hardcover | |
Reference books used on the AOL based Jôyô 96's Kanji Pages: Users should take note that Nelson, as well as Henshall, Halpern, Heisig, and Spahn indices are given for Jôyô Kanji entries, but for non-Jôyô (NGU) characters Nelson indices alone are given. Users may purchase these references from these links. On these pages, NGU indicates Not in General Use - and hence, not a Jôyô Kanji, and CO indicates Chinese Only - currently only used in China). | ||
| The New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Based on the Classic Edition by Andrew N. Nelson) | Hardcover | |
This short series named 250 Essential Kanji for Everyday Use comes by way of the Kanji Text Research Group at the University of Tokyo, Japan's most prestigious University (a sort of public Harvard and MIT rolled into one). For each character they have devised a story of the Kanji's evolution, and provide exercises based on real life situations in Japan such as using ATM machines and taking ski trips. Studying Japanese from texts written by Japanese Professors differs from texts written by English speaking professors on two points in my view. One, the material is generally much harder, as the Japanese instructor has less perspective on where you are starting from, and two, you are generaly learning more realistic Japanese than you would from many texts authored by native English speakers. | ||
| 250 Essential Kanji for Everyday Use | Paperback | |
| 250 Essential Kanji for Everyday Use - Vol 2 | Paperback | |
Len Walsh's Read Japanese Today overstates what you can accomplish after reading his inexpensive book, but it is a delightful introduction to the joy of Kanji etymology, filled with fascinating stories of why those funny shapes came to mean what they do. This is a very enjoyable and easy to read primer for the begginer in preparation for using Jôyô 96 or Kenneth Henshall's A Guide To Remembering The Japanese Characters. | ||
| Read Japanese Today | Paperback | |
These particular works of Ms. Jorden's are the same series I used in college, and I am told are the most commonly used in the East Coast Universities of the USA. Please keep in mind that Ms. Jorden's Reading Japanese is focused on Japanese script, and Japanese, the Spoken Language is instead focused on on the precision mastery of speaking Japanese: | ||
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| Japanese, the Spoken Language (1987) | Paperback | |
| Japanese, the Spoken Language, Part II (1988) | Paperback | |
| Japanese, the Spoken Language, Part III (1990) | Paperback | |
| Japanese : The Spoken Language, Part 1 : A Question and Answer Supplement (1994) | Paperback | |
| Supplement to Japanese: The Spoken Language PT.1 (1988) | Paperback | |
| Japanese; The Spoken Language PT.2 (1988) | Paperback | |
| Japanese; The Spoken Language PT.3 (1990) | Paperback | |
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