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Andrew Scott Conning is a doctoral candidate and Presidential Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He received a bachelor's degree in languages from Georgetown University (USA) and a master's degree in social anthropology from the Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (Mexico). He has been active in Japan as a lecturer and university administrator, and most recently as a research scholar at the University of Tokyo.
No one Kanji-learning course will have everything that someone learning Kanji would need, but this book comes pretty close. I am using it, as the author recommends, with Halpern's Kanji Learner's Dictionary and am extremely pleased with my progress. It is the clear that what this course lacks is made up for in the Kanji Learner's Dictionary, and the cross-referencing makes each kanji easy to find in Halpern's volume. The care, the attention to detail, and the great imagination used to assist the learner in this book is evident. What an achievement!
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I've been waiting for this book to come out since I first heard of it. A new book for learning something as old as kanji coming out in December 2013, what would be the point?
Well, in my experience, no other kanji book is as comprehensive as "The Kodansha Kanji Learner's Course". There are other kanji books out there with a mnemonic learning style, but I would say that this book does it better than any other. The only criticism I might have is I wish that it had a more thorough list of common jukugo/vocabulary for each kanji, but that's not too much of a problem.
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The author uses various techniques in a cumulative way to teach the meanings of the kanji. An appendix is included to show rules for readings of 550 kanji .. for the rest of the readings it is recommended to learn by studying the compounds. Goes great with Japanese for Busy People. Compounds used only include characters learned thus far. This book is awesome, and especially for the price. Can't wait to get the recommended Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary. Have fun! :)
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This book is great to as a reference tool for kanji. Having used numerous kanji books aimed at Japanese school kids as well as the Kanji Kentei books, this book is quite easy to follow and I mainly bought it for the mnemonics it has for each characters and the grouping of similar looking kanji together. However, this book cannot be a main kanji text for learning and only serves as a supplemental guide to a proper kanji workbook as it lacks example sentences and usage of compound words.
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After a little time with the book and some learning of katakana I was able to roughly translate western names into Japanese for several artsy projects.
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