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Japanese Writing and Reading Practice Manual (English and Japanese Edition)
Japanese Writing and Reading Practice Manual - English and Japanese Edition Author:Madoka Kikuchi, Javier Bernal This manual is mainly for the purpose of practicing the writing and reading of Japanese, in particular of kanji characters. This volume of the manual, Volume I, is divided in two parts and consists essentially of two sections, a romaji section (in Part I) where readings of sample Japanese words are presented in romaji, and a Japanese section (in... more » Part II) where most of the same sample words are presented in printed Japanese, that is, in terms of kanji and kana characters in their printed form. The two sections are divided equally into corresponding groups, one per page. Each group is made up of numbered entries, each entry addressing a specific kanji character. A simple practice routine is suggested. Given a group in the romaji section, without looking at the corresponding group in the Japanese section, for each entry in the group one first identifies the kanji character addressed by the entry from the information associated with the character that appears in the entry (English tags, sample words, etc.), and then writes in Japanese each sample word whose reading in romaji appears in the entry. Once all sample words whose readings appear in the group have been written this way, one compares the results with what appears in the corresponding group in the Japanese section. Perhaps at a later time one does what amounts to the same exercise but in the opposite direction: without looking at the group in the romaji section, one reads each sample word in the corresponding Japanese section and writes the reading in romaji. Once all sample words in the group have been read this way, one compares the resulting readings with the readings given for the group in the romaji section. This exercise (romaji to Japanese, Japanese to romaji) is then repeated a few times for the same group, and as time goes by, other groups are added to this practice routine. In this volume of the manual 738 common kanji characters are addressed and care has been taken to present a reasonable number of mostly commonly-used words as sample words that illustrate the most common ON and KUN readings of the 738 characters.« less