My First Japanese Kanji Book: Learning Kanji the fun and easy way! [Hardcover]

Eriko Sato (Author), Anna Sato (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 10, 2009 | Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up

Includes Audio CD.

My First Japanese Kanji Book is an inventive and unique introduction to kanji for children. Written by the mother-daughter team of Eriko and Anna Sato, this lovely book introduces 109 kanji characters to children with poems and illustrations. It includes all the Japanese Government specified first grade level kanji characters and a sprinkling of simple second to sixth grade characters.

The kanji are introduced in the context of 36 colorful paintings and poems by 14-year-old Anna Sato, herself a kanji learner. Each of the poems is presented in both Japanese and English, and all kanji are accompanied by furigana (small hiragana letters), stroke-order diagrams, sample vocabulary and boxes for writing practice.

A charming and educational volume, My First Japanese Kanji Book can be used as a self-study text, a supplementary material in Japanese language schools or a gift book for family or friends.

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About the Author

Anna Sato is a ninth grader who loves languages, creative writing, art and music. She participated in Japanese and Chinese weekend programs at the State University of New York at Stony Brook when she was an elementary school student.

Eriko Sato, Ph.D. is the founding director of the Pre-College Japanese Program at Stony Brook University and the author of Japanese for Dummies and Contemporary Japanese: An Introductory Textbook for College Students.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 5 and up
  
• Hardcover: 64 pages
• Publisher: Tuttle Publishing; Hardcover with jacket and disc edition (November 10, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 4805310375
• ISBN-13: 978-4805310373
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.7 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #907,425 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great poems for practicing and reviewing kanji and hiragana, December 8, 2010

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This review is from: My First Japanese Kanji Book: Learning Kanji the fun and easy way! (Hardcover)

This book very carefully organizes important kanji characters so that young learners can easily continue learning kanji. For example, easy kanji, like numbers, the sun, the moon, etc. are introduced before slightly complex kanji, and one lesson introduces only a few kanji that are used in the same poem. My students memorized many poems in the book. Because the poems are short, they can recite them by heart, and can write one poem a day from their memory. This way, they can regularly practice and review kanji and hiragana.