I'm currently using a book that my cousin left me (he didn't think his bro would tkae the time to learn) about four or five years ago before his family left the apartment my mom and I live in now(he went to Chiba University his sophmore (?) year to study abroad and he'd been staying with his family to cut down on expenses.
Okay, the book I'm using is called Reading and Writing and is published by Tuttle. It lists 881 "essentail characters" as listed by The Japanese Ministry of Education. Followed by 1,800 some general use characters, some kanji, then the alphabet.
With the characters, it shows stroke order, definition, examples of use, kun yomi, and on-yumi.
If you take, ichi (one) for example, it shows you how to form one month and such, but it doesn't show you in which case you'd use the kun-yomi pronounciation, or on-yumi pronounciation. For that I had to seek help in an already Japanese speaking family member.
I recognise many of the characters from a Mandarin class i took in middle school, but I'd like to know if there's a more structured book I can use besides the one I'm using now.
EDIT: Sorry.. I didn't realize there was a section for this.. forgive my n00bness
Okay, the book I'm using is called Reading and Writing and is published by Tuttle. It lists 881 "essentail characters" as listed by The Japanese Ministry of Education. Followed by 1,800 some general use characters, some kanji, then the alphabet.
With the characters, it shows stroke order, definition, examples of use, kun yomi, and on-yumi.
If you take, ichi (one) for example, it shows you how to form one month and such, but it doesn't show you in which case you'd use the kun-yomi pronounciation, or on-yumi pronounciation. For that I had to seek help in an already Japanese speaking family member.
I recognise many of the characters from a Mandarin class i took in middle school, but I'd like to know if there's a more structured book I can use besides the one I'm using now.
EDIT: Sorry.. I didn't realize there was a section for this.. forgive my n00bness
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