Customer Reviews

Remembering the Kanji, Vol. 2: A Systematic Guide to Reading Japanese Characters (Japanese Edition)

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

My son wants to learn Japanese and requested Remembering the Kanji I,II, III for Christmas. I was able to secure the 3 books, from 3 different sources, through Amazon. I saved nearly $55.00 over bookstore cost, buying new and nearly new, another $40.00 was taken from the price by opening an Amazon credit acct. The books arrived timely and in good condition.

I have yet to hear of any learner that truly enjoyed this volume and found it useful.

Volume 2 of Remembering the Kanji is simply a reference tool. There are no mnemonic devices that aid to your learning what-so-ever.

I am almost certain you will be disappointed in your purchase if you get this book.

Although I learned the kanji using the more straightforward methods of flash cards, writing them repeatedly, and memorizing the meanings and sounds of the semasio-phonetic components, every person I know who has tried the Heisig method has gotten amazing results. Based on that, it seems to me to be quite effective, and you might want to give it a try if the standard rote memorization learning methods are not effective for you.

Ivan Rorick

it was overall good tough some defintions of the kanji in romaji
or hiragana could of made it the best book to learn kanji