I used Remembering the Kana by James W. Heisig to learn the entire alphabet in a few hours so I decided to try out his kanji learning books. However, a few lessons into the first volume I'm beginning to have some doubts.
It's not that I'm not learning anything--I am--it's that I'm afraid the book may be outdated. For example, the kanji it teaches for ideas like "I" and "companion" look completely different from the kanji I see in Random House's JP-EN dictionary. What's up with that?
I want to believe it's not teaching me obsolete kanji since this is the 2001 reprinting, but I don't know what else the problem could be. I'd especially love to hear from those who used Heisig's books to learn kanji.
Thanks.
(Just in case you're curious, all I know so far in terms of Japanese is the kana. I plan on using Heisig's books to learn the kanji, and using Rosetta Stone for sentence structure, etc. If you have better recommendations please share!)
It's not that I'm not learning anything--I am--it's that I'm afraid the book may be outdated. For example, the kanji it teaches for ideas like "I" and "companion" look completely different from the kanji I see in Random House's JP-EN dictionary. What's up with that?
I want to believe it's not teaching me obsolete kanji since this is the 2001 reprinting, but I don't know what else the problem could be. I'd especially love to hear from those who used Heisig's books to learn kanji.
Thanks.
(Just in case you're curious, all I know so far in terms of Japanese is the kana. I plan on using Heisig's books to learn the kanji, and using Rosetta Stone for sentence structure, etc. If you have better recommendations please share!)