Let's Learn Kanji

• About the book

This approach to learning the basic components of kanji demonstrates simply how a finite number of parts combine into a wide variety of characters. Everyone agrees that it is possible to learn to speak Japanese in a reasonable amount of time, but no one has ever said that about reading and writing it. It is widely held that spoken and written Japanese require separate efforts by the student, as if these two aspects were in fact distinct languages. <br>A first step toward alleviating this situation was taken by Yasuko Mitamura in 1985 with the publication of Let's