Author: James W. HeisigPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824831675
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Volume 2 (4th ed.) updated to include the 196 kanja approved in 2010 for general use.
Remembering the Kanji 3
Author: James W. HeisigPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824831675
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Volume 2 (4th ed.) updated to include the 196 kanja approved in 2010 for general use.
Remembering the Kanji 2
Author: James W. HeisigPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824836696
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Following the first volume of Remembering the Kanji, the present work provides students with helpful tools for learning the pronunciation of the kanji. Behind the notorious inconsistencies in the way the Japanese language has come to pronounce the characters it received from China lie several coherent patterns. Identifying these patterns and arranging them in logical order can reduce dramatically the amount of time spent in the brute memorization of sounds unrelated to written forms. Many of the “primitive elements,” or building blocks, used in the drawing of the characters also serve to indicate the “Chinese reading” that particular kanji use, chiefly in compound terms. By learning one of the kanji that uses such a “signal primitive,” one can learn the entire group at the same time. In this way, Remembering the Kanji 2 lays out the varieties of phonetic pattern and offers helpful hints for learning readings, that might otherwise appear completely random, in an efficient and rational way. Individual frames cross-reference the kanji to alternate readings and to the frame in volume 1 in which the meaning and writing of the kanji was first introduced. A parallel system of pronouncing the kanji, their “Japanese readings,” uses native Japanese words assigned to particular Chinese characters. Although these are more easily learned because of the association of the meaning to a single word, the author creates a kind of phonetic alphabet of single syllable words, each connected to a simple Japanese word, and shows how they can be combined to help memorize particularly troublesome vocabulary. The 4th edition has been updated to include the 196 new kanji approved by the government in 2010 as “general-use” kanji.
Remembering the Kanji 1
Author: James W. HeisigPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
V. 1. A complete course on how not to forget the meaning and writing of Japanese characters.
Remembering Simplified Hanzi 1
Author: James W. HeisigPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824875931
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
At long last the approach that has helped thousands of learners memorize Japanese kanji has been adapted to help students with Chinese characters. Book 1 of Remembering Simplified Hanzi covers the writing and meaning of the 1,000 most commonly used characters in the simplified Chinese writing system, plus another 500 that are best learned at an early stage. (Book 2 adds another 1,500 characters for a total of 3,000.) Of critical importance to the approach found in these pages is the systematic arranging of characters in an order best suited to memorization. In the Chinese writing system, strokes and simple components are nested within relatively simple characters, which can, in turn, serve as parts of more complicated characters and so on. Taking advantage of this allows a logical ordering, making it possible for students to approach most new characters with prior knowledge that can greatly facilitate the learning process. Guidance and detailed instructions are provided along the way. Students are taught to employ "imaginative memory" to associate each character’s component parts, or "primitive elements," with one another and with a key word that has been carefully selected to represent an important meaning of the character. This is accomplished through the creation of a "story" that engagingly ties the primitive elements and key word together. In this way, the collections of dots, strokes, and components that make up the characters are associated in memorable fashion, dramatically shortening the time required for learning and helping to prevent characters from slipping out of memory.
Remembering the Kanji
Author: James W. HeisigPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824831667
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Following the first volume of Remembering the Kanji, the present work takes up the pronunciation of characters and provides students with helpful tools for memorizing them. Behind the notorious inconsistencies in the way the Japanese language has come to pronounce the characters it received from China lie several coherent patterns. Identifying these patterns and arranging them in logical order can reduce dramatically the amount of time spent in the brute memorization of sounds unrelated to written forms. Many of the "primitive elements," or building blocks, used in the drawing of the characters also serve to indicate the "Chinese reading" that particular kanji use, chiefly in compound terms. By learning one of the kanji that uses such a "signal primitive," one can learn the entire group at the same time. In this way. Remembering the Kanji 2 lays out the varieties of phonetic patterns and offers helpful hints for learning readings, which might otherwise appear completely random, in an efficient and rational way. A parallel system of pronouncing the kanji, their "Japanese readings," uses native Japanese words assigned to particular Chinese characters. Although these are more easily learned because of the association of the meaning to a single word, Heisig creates a kind of phonetic alphabet of single-syllable words, each connected to a simple Japanese word, and shows how they can be combined to help memorize particularly troublesome vocabulary. Unlike Volume 1, which proceeds step-by-step in a series of lessons, Volume 2 is organized in such as way that one can study individual chapters or use it as a reference for pronunciation problems as they arise. Individual frames cross-referencethe kanji to alternate readings and to the frame in Volume 1 in which the meaning and writing of the kanji was first introduced.
Kanji From Zero! 1: Proven Techniques to Master Kanji Used by Students All Over the World.
Author: George TrombleyPublisher: Kanji from Zero
ISBN: 9780996786317
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Kanji From Zero! isn't just another kanji reference book, instead, it's designed to give genuine insight into kanji, the associated Japanese culture, and related Japanese words that other books often ignore.
Remembering the Hiragana
Author: James W. HeisigPublisher: Kodansha
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Remembering the Kana
Author: James W. HeisigPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824850335
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Following on the phenomenal success of Remembering the Kanji, the author has prepared a companion volume for learning the Hiragana and Katakana syllabaries of modern Japanese. In six short lessons of about twenty minutes, each of the two systems of "kana" writing are introduced in such a way that the absolute beginner can acquire fluency in writing in a fraction of the time normally devoted to the task. Using the same basic self-taught method devised for learning the kanji, and in collaboration with Helmut Morsbach and Kazue Kurebayashi, the author breaks the shapes of the two syllabaries into their component parts and draws on what he calls "imaginative memory" to aid the student in reassembling them into images that fix the sound of each particular kana to its writing. Now in its third edition, Remembering the Kana has helped tens of thousands of students of Japanese master the Hiragana and Katakana in a short amount of time . . . and have fun in the process.
The Kanji Code
Author: Natalie J HamiltonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780648488606
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Memorising kanji readings is one of the biggest hurdles when learning Japanese. The Kanji Code teaches a systematic method of learning the readings of kanji or Chinese characters. By studying phonetic components and other visual clues, students of Japanese can reduce their reliance on rote memorisation and feel more in control of their learning.
Genkouyoushi Notebook
Author: Red Tiger PressPublisher:
ISBN: 9781071366318
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Genkouyoushi Notebook - Kanji and Kana Characters Writing Practice Book This stylish traditional notebook style workbook contains 120 pages of kanji paper, also known as genkouyoushi paper. Each large square holds one character and each square is divided into four quadrants to guide the correct positioning of the elements of each character. This notebook is ideal for both adults and children who are learning Japanese and need to practice the written language. Size: 8.5 x 11 in. 120 Pages of Kanji Paper Premium matte finish soft cover Printed on white paper