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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tasuki" data-source="post: 18448" data-attributes="member: 1182">Any of the Japanese for Busy People series from JALT (<a href="http://www.jalt.org">www.jalt.org</a>). Those are great text books. Get the kana version of the books for more practice. Get the CDs too, while you're at it. The better you get, the more kanji they integrate in the text.I have found that doing this while studying kanji and substituting the kana in the text for kanji is great practice. I'm using a book entitled "Kanji & kana" from the Tuttle Language Libray collection. It's a really good combo.If it helps any, I've been in Japan for 5 years now, can read and write about 1000 kanji and I still have trouble reading magazines and the newspaper. Keep at it.</blockquote>