Kanji-a-Day Practice Pad (Tuttle Flash Cards) [Paperback]

Richard Keirstead (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 15, 1994 | Series: Tuttle Flash Cards

Learn a year's worth of essential kanji in just minutes a day with this user-friendly practice pad.

The pad teaches users 365 kanji with stroke-by-stroke instructions. Each sheet introduces a new kanji in bold, easy-to-read type, and includes readings, meanings, and stroke order. In addition, two sample compounds illustrate practical usage of the kanji and help build vocabulary.

--This text refers to the Accessory edition.

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About the Author

Richard Keirstead is an information security expert and author of several language learning books.

--This text refers to the Accessory edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Tuttle Publishing (September 15, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 080482004X
• ISBN-13: 978-0804820042
• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 5.5 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,201,167 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent idea whose time has come., September 30, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Kanji-a-Day Practice Pad (Tuttle Flash Cards) (Paperback)

Mr. Keirstead's Kanji-A-Day Practice Pad serves as a constant reminder that ANY task can be accomplished if you tackle it one step at a time, one day at a time. Well sure enough, by studying just ONE kanji character a day, after a year, I could pick up a standard Japanese novel and understand at least 70% of the novel with little or no difficulty. If you are new to Japanese, I recommend you obtain the Kana-A-Day Practice Pad as a primer to the Kanji-A-Day Practice Pad

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic way to learn kanji, December 29, 2001

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Natasha Hemmings (Melbourne, Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kanji-a-Day Practice Pad (Tuttle Flash Cards) (Paperback)

I bought this pad on the recommendation of the previous reviews for it (see above) and I can honestly say I wasn't disappointed. For each day, it displays stroke order, Japanese and Chinese readings and then examples of words in which the new character can be used. The succession of new characters is also very well-chosen; the author seems to have made sure that you don't have to learn 20-stroke beasts too early on! It'd be great if he devised a Volume II, as this pad seems to be the most painless way to learn kanji if you don't think you're quite ready for the radicals and components etc.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Printing problem, August 9, 2006

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Asoka20912 "Asoka" (Takoma Park,, MD) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Japanese Kanji a Day Practice Pad Volume 1 (Tuttle Practice Pads) (Vol 1) (Accessory)

I don't have much to add to the other reviews. I also think that this i best used as a supplement, rather than as the primary tool for learning kanji. I know the tradition method is to sit down and work methodically through the list, but I discovered when I studied Chinese that I only retained characers I was also using in reading and writing. So I learn them as I need them, and see the practice pad a nice way to drill strok order and just get the hand into the right rhythm for writing.

The point I want to add is that the printing of the copy I got isn't the greatest. The problem is the three squares with the outline of the characer in gray for tracing. In most cases, the gray is so faint that it may as well not be there. Given that the font used for the tracig doesn't manage the writing of the stroke order chart or the main printd character, there is little to go on. I found this as well with some of the kana set, though it was true for only a part of the pad, the print getting darker the further into the pad one got. It sounds minor, but I believe these racings are supposed to be a major selling point.