Tuttle Kanji Cards [Cards]

Alexander Kask (Author)

Product Details

• Cards: 440 pages
• Publisher: Charles E. Tuttle Co. (December 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0804819459
• ISBN-13: 978-0804819459
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 4.5 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,819,260 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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43 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An excellent language learning source!, January 15, 2000

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Jennifer Gasiorowski (Baltimore, Md.) - See all my reviews

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I own the Tuttle Kanji Cards I and II. When I first started using these, I only knew about 80 kanji, now I know around 600. What I liked the best about these cards were: 1.) It has a stroke order (in the first set of cards) and shows you how to draw them.

2.) It comes with 4 combinations per card. (some do repeat however, and it doesn't tell you if that particular kanji can be used alone, but I suppose a kanji dictionary would suffice for that)

3.) It breaks it up into two parts (unless it's a kanji radical), which can help in memorization.

4.) The cards are divided into grades, which gives you some idea of how much you actually know.

(my recommendation for learning: learn in a set of 10, and repeat that set until you memorize it. I usually learn about 50 cards at once this way. Even memorizing 100 cards in one sitting is possible!)

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A very useful tool for the visually-dependent Jpnese student, May 26, 1999

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This set of 440 flash cards was a great help to me when I went to Japan in Feb 97. I knew about 2 or 3 hundred kanji then. Now I'm addicted and know about 1500. I just read that the second set of cards has been published and hope to get the complete set of everyday-use (jooyoo) kanji.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent learning tool, March 23, 2002

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J. Howard (NC, USA) - See all my reviews
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My son takes Japanese in college. He zipped through learning the hiragana & katakana, but has really had to work at learning the kanji. He has used the first set of cards for three months now and says they are the only useful tool he has found. He still has to work, especially to write the kanji as opposed to just recognizing them, but he says these cards are a huge help to him.