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Learning Japanese Hiragana and Katakana: Workbook and Practice Sheets

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I am taking Japanese and needed some extra practice with Hiragana and Katakana. This is exactly what I was looking for. It even has a part where you have to figure out if you are suppose to write in Katakana or Hiragana! It also has empty blocks in the back just for un guided practice...so you don't have to use you notebook paper for more practice! When my Japanese teacher saw me with the book he himself said that it is a great system....my thought...........why isn't it being used in the college!?! This book company sells other great books for learning Japanese as well.

This is a great workbook for practicing your strokes. If you need mnemonics to help learn your characters, you will need to look elsewhere. This book is geared toward improving your writing skills, not learning the characters. The nice thing about this book is that not only does it show how the character should look in brush and also pencil, it also shows the historical derivation of the character which is nice to see. There is plenty of room for practice although I used separate sheets so as not to fill up the book. After each group of 10 characters it has several pages of practice words combining what you have learned up to this point which is a nice review. It has the words in romaji as well as written in Hiragana/Katakana so you can either copy if you're working on your penmanship (pencilmanship?), or you can cover the Japanese and look at only the Romaji to practice your character recall. There are also a number of pages with very thorough explanation of the different points in pronunciation, etc. Highly recommended.

An excellent workbook. Introduces the characters in an easy-to-grasp way and in a sensible order. Explains the derivation of the characters from kanji and gives plenty of ways to practice them.

I love this book, very helpful and clear..it teaches Hiragana and Katakana characters, the pronunciation is written in Romaji, there are examples to each sound, and finally there are empty pages at the back for more practice. if you want to start learning Japanese, start with this book =)

I've been using this book for some time and I'm learning well. Although I haven't start studing katakana, I think there won't be any problem. Also, I have to say that I had no previous knowledge of Japanese.

well i dont think it should be used as the main way to learn the kana.. i think this should be used with Japanese Katakana for Beginners: First Steps to Mastering the Japanese Writing System (Tuttle Language Library) (Japanese Edition) and Japanese Hiragana for Beginners: First Steps to Mastering the Japanese Writing System (Japanese Edition)

definitely great practice.. plus its got quite a few vocab words in it..

My girls are 13 & 14 now and love Japanese anime, manga and love learning Hiragana, katakana, kanja. As a teen I practice and taught myself Hiragana and happy to see my girls like it too. I hope for them to visit Japan in the future again.