Japanese Kanji Made Easy Book & Online Audio

Learning kanji is a big challenge and yet an integral part of studying Japanese. This book will help you visualize kanji and have fun learning them. --Masumi Reade, Teacher of the Year, National Council of Japanese Language Teachers Ultimately, Japanese Kanji Made Easy lives up to its promise: by transforming each character into a relevant and simple illustration, it makes the process of memorizing kanji much less intimidating. It's an excellent book for acquainting yourself with the writing systems of Japanese, and will pave the way for your future Japanese-language endeavors. --LanguageTrainers.com There are already about as many books on Japanese kanji out there as there are Kanji, so I was skeptical. This one would need to do something inconceivably astounding to stand out from the pack, like teach me how to turn wine into gold. And while it doesn't do that, since it's not a book on divine miracles, it's a book on Kanji, what it does do is provide an exceptional foundation for anyone seriously hoping to learn Japanese. --Seventh Style blog Kluemper uses a system of drawings to help you remember both the meaning and the pronunciation of kanji phrases and kana phonemes. For example, 'ki' looks like a key turning in a lock. When I first looked into studying kana, the idea of using images to aid memory didn't occur to me ... Kluemper's book makes learning Kanji easy. --Japan Powered blog I already know all of the kanji (and of course, kana) in this book, but I can tell that it would make learning them easier than the straight memorization way that I did! If you're interested in learning Japanese, this book would be immensely helpful to you! --Tokyo Five blog