Learn Kanji through pictrures. Japanese written characters, or kanji, have their origin in a picture-language developed in ancient China. Over time this language evolved into stylized abstract forms that are hard to memorize. In "Kanji Pict-o-graphix," Michael Rowley offers a whole new set of contemporary visual and textual memory aids - mnemonics - that reveal the meanings of over 1,000 Japanese kanji.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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I bought this book and found it novel and worth my time at first. But it is not a complete list, and the mnemonics are useless for teaching you how to write the kanjis. Also the selection is very random and there is no systematic approach to the learning proces.
For a long term gain of kanji proficiency I recommend you skip this book entirely and get James W. Heisig: Remembering the Kanji
A COMPLETE COURSE ON HOW NOT TO FORGET
THE MEANING AND WRITING OF JAPANESE CHARACTERS (volume 1)
Also here on Amazon.co.uk. This book works.
18 of 19 people found the following review helpful
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This book is very good at what it tries to do: provide visual mnemonics to help you recognise kanji and remember their meanings. And it's very bad at the things it doesn't try to do: teach readings, compounds, or how to actually read the kanji in genuine Japanese text.
"Kanji Pict-o-graphix" is a fun book to browse when you're not feeling up to some serious study. But it's not a workbook. You can't just sit down and learn some kanji from this book, not in a way that will help you in the real world.
However, it is an excellent supplement to a more structured workbook like "Let's Learn Kanji" (ISBN: 4770020686). If you've got a proper textbook, workbook, or taught course, then "Kanji Pict-o-graphix" goes great by the side to help you associate meanings with the radicals you learn.
"Snow" is built from the symbols for "rain" and "hand": so remember "snow is rain you can hold". The kanji for "Left" and "Right" differ only in one component meaning "construct" and "mouth" respectively: so remember "work with your left hand, eat with your right". Simple mnemonics like this are a great assistant to a more formal workbook.
It is marred by a number of simple errors in the cross-referencing: printing "702" instead of "704", "100" instead of "653", and so on. This is slightly irritating, but only in the cross-references for kanji components and not a major problem, because you can easily find the correct reference yourself.
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
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Buying and reading this book has been amusing. The covered kanjis are all illustrated wonderfully with funny, shocking and frank pictures. The layout is good and the book has some great mnemonic s for remembering kana.
But it is not a way to learn kanji, far from it. In fact, its nigh-on useless if you plan on going anywhere with kanji. The approach taken by this book is very unsystematical. You are not taught how to draw a kanji either.
For the same money you would be better off with a stack of flash cards really. This book really should be categorized as art or entertainment, since I find it of little to no use as a self-study tool. If you are serious about kanji, check out James Heisigs works instead.
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This book is useful
I think this book is great and I use it, but learning kanji properly is important this will just help you remember the image it won't teach you how kanji works. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Loco Caballo
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organisation of the book a little weird but really useful
I find the way the kanji are grouped together a little weird and would not use this book alone to study kanji. Read more
Published on 18 Nov 2010 by Teresa P
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Typographically attractive yet ultimately disappointing.
In spite of the age old advice "Never judge a book by it's cover" I purchased copies of both Kana Pict'o'graphix and Kanji Pict'o'graphix. Read more
Published on 20 Mar 2010 by B. D. Cooper
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Curious but not indispensable
It's a curious item, with a subjective interpretation of each kanji meaning, often European vision of the kanji. Read more
Published on 12 Oct 2009 by Serena
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A Very Good Book For Beginners
This book is great for beginners to the japanese language system because the pictures clearly show a representation of the kanji it's self. Read more
Published on 7 July 2004 by Scott Ashman
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very funny, interesting, v. good for active writing skills
An extremely useful book for learning Kanji, in my opinion. I am an advanced student of Japanese and for me even though recognizing Kanji in a given text has become much easier... Read more
Published on 11 Dec 2000 by Roman Bartnik
3.0 out of 5 stars
Attractive, useful supplement but largely useless.
I like this book. Its good for kana, and it can help you see the way kanji are formed and their regular nature. Read more
Published on 1 April 2000 by Bozz
3.0 out of 5 stars
Clever mneomonics, lousy organization, incompleate reference
I must admit this book has the smartest mneomonics of all the kanji books I bought. Unfortunately, it doesn't cover all the standard kanji and lacks the stroke order pictures found... Read more
Published on 9 July 1998
5.0 out of 5 stars
The best kanji tutor available
this is simply the best kanji tutor available. No better way to remember kanji than with these clever mnemonics
Published on 21 Mar 1997
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