Learning a foreign alphabet is a challenge for any student, especially for the learner of Japanese--a language having no less than two phonetic scripts and over 2,000 Chinese characters. With Kana-OK!, this challenge has been turned into fun. Kana-OK! is a lively, interactive introduction to hiragana and katakana, the two basic scripts used in written Japanese. Combining the latest thinking in pedagogy that culture should be taught in connection with language, for example- and with unique illustrations and visual devices designed to motivate and foster retention of the material
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Learning a foreign alphabet is a challenge for any student, especially for the learner of Japanese--a language having no less than two phonetic scripts and over 2,000 Chinese characters. With Kana-OK!, this challenge has been turned into fun. Kana-OK! is a lively, interactive introduction to hiragana and katakana, the two basic scripts used in written Japanese. Combining the latest thinking in pedagogy that culture should be taught in connection with language, for example- and with unique illustrations and visual devices designed to motivate and foster retention of the material