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Writing Japanese Katakana by Jim Gleeson

Posted on September 9, 2015February 6, 2016 by Chris Kincaid

One of the keys to learning Japanese is stroke order and drilling until each stroke is second nature. Jim Gleeson put together a wonderful workbook that lets you do just that. In a short introduction, Gleeson outlines the different strokes needed to form each letter, and he briefly provides a history lesson about how kana…

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Japanese Kanji Made Easy

Posted on March 25, 2015February 6, 2016 by Chris Kincaid

I am terrible at rote memorization. In other Japanese language books (and when I took Spanish classes for that matter), rote memorization was the key to learning. I don’t know how many times I had to copy Spanish conjugate  verb charts to remember even just a few of them.  My memory is good, but not…

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