19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great!, June 8, 2006
This review is from: Japanese Kanji Flashcards, Vol. 1, Revised (Cards)
This summer I decided to take up a foreign language, and Japanese was my first choice. I was fine when I found out that I would be needing to learn hiragana and katakana, but when Kanji came along, i thought that it was over. It turns out that this has been so much fun learning kanji with the White Rabbit Press flashcards. I've learned so many in a short amount of time!
The cards are just the right size (3.5" by 2.5") they are coated with UV varnish so they are super durable. They feel like they are laminated. They are so portable so u can take them any where when you travel (which i do alot) and the cards look really professional.
I highly reccomend these cards even if your not studying for the JLPT.
Gambatte!
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The BEST, August 23, 2005
This review is from: Japanese Kanji Flashcards, Vol. 1, Revised (Cards)
These cards are the best on the market period. First of all these cards use kana. The cards also have 6 compounds for each and every Kanji. Finally the "paper" the cards are printed on far surpasses any of the competition.
"White Rabbit Press" the publisher, has an AUDIO companion available on there website. It has the Kanji's ON and KUN readings plus all the compounds listed on each card, read by a NATIVE JAPANESE professional voice actress. If your self studying, or just really care about your pronunciation I can't recommend the AUDIO companion enough.
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Very nice set., August 11, 2005
This review is from: Japanese Kanji Flashcards, Vol. 1, Revised (Cards)
I haven't even been able to get through all of them yet, but I'm loving them so far. Good points:
1.The kanji is big and easy to read. On the bottom there are also step-by-step picture instructions for writing them.
2.The front of the card has some similar-looking kanji off to the side so that you can easily compare the difference.
3. The back lists the different pronounciations in kana, which helps you off the "romaji" crutch.
4. There are sample words with the kanji on the front with definitions on the back (again, pronounciation in hiragana/katakana) which can be used for expanding and practicing vocabulary.
5. As I think another reviewer has already mentioned, the cards are durable (laminated?), and the corners are rounded so you don't repeatedly stab yourself and acquire a negative association complex with studying ;)
I don't really have any complaints about these cards. Obviously you'll only get out of them what you put into your studying. I grab a handful and stuff them in my messenger bag so I can go over them in my free time. Maybe you and your fellow nihongo fanatics can play games with them or something :)
There's also a flashcard technique that my own sensee taught us in our first semester (he also told us to spell "sensei" like that, so step off ;D). Go through the set once, putting them in 3 piles: the ones you get right away, the ones that take you awhile, and the ones you don't know or get totally wrong. Don't be discouraged by a pitifully low or non-existant first pile. Go through the third pile, go through the second pile, then go through the third pile again, then first, second, third again. Shuffle them up and make new piles. The idea is that each time you do this, you'll be putting fewer in the third stack and eventually more and more into the first stack. He also said to do this as often as possible.
Ganbatte! :)
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