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LEARN JAPANESE WITH MANGA UNIVERSITY!
“Kanji de Manga” is the comic book that teaches you how to read and write Japanese. This award-winning series from Manga University uses original comic artwork to teach readers how to identify and write the most common Japanese kanji ideographs. Volume 1 introduces 80 basic kanji that all Japanese students are required to learn before entering the third grade.
“A brilliant idea!” says Ronald A. Morse, retired professor of Japan Studies at UCLA and the University of Las Vegas, Nevada. “Japanese kanji — the written symbols adapted from Chinese — were originally drawings of images from real life. Japanese comic books and cartoons now provide fresh images to help us learn. Kanji de Manga uses today’s manga images to make the kanji learning process fun and easy for otaku of all ages. This is a brilliant approach to learning the language.”
Each page features its own manga, kanji pronunciation guide, stroke order, and English explanations.
Created by Glenn Kardy, editor of several volumes in the popular How to Draw Manga series, including Getting Started, the first book of its kind to be used at major universities in the United States (UCLA) and Japan (Waseda). Artwork by Chihiro Hattori, niece of legendary manga artist Eichi Fukui. Features a foreword by Tomonori Morikawa, Professor of International Studies at Waseda University, Tokyo.
“Kanji de Manga” is the comic book that teaches you how to read and write Japanese. This award-winning series from Manga University uses original comic artwork to teach readers how to identify and write the most common Japanese kanji ideographs.
Recipient of the Saitama (Japan) Innovation Award.
From the Publisher
Learning Japanese is easy with a little help from Manga University
If you’re like us, you’ve read lots of manga and watched hours of anime. And now you want to learn everything you can about the language and culture of the place they come from — Japan.
But traditional Japanese textbooks are boring. Which is why we made Kanji de Manga, a fully illustrated series that teaches you how to read and write Japanese.
It’s as simple as picking up your favorite comic book
Kanji de Manga is the critically acclaimed Manga University series that uses original manga artwork to teach you how to read and write Japanese.
We start you out with Kana de Manga, which will help you memorize hiragana and katakana, the ”ABCs of Japanese.” Then we introduce you to the more challenging kanji characters. It’s a time-tested method that has been proven effective.
100% authentic Japanese manga at your fingertips
You might have been told that kanji are almost impossible to learn. Nonsense! With Kanji de Manga, you’ll learn new words and characters by reading fun and simple Japanese manga.
That’s right; after mastering the basics, you can start reading Kanji de Manga’s authentic manga written entirely in Japanese. And along the way, we will teach you about Japanese culture, too, which is just as essential to understanding Japan as the writing system itself.
An award winning series used in real classrooms since 2005
Kanji de Manga has been translated into multiple languages and is is a favorite of teachers worldwide. That’s because Manga University delivers on its promise to make learning Japanese fun and easy every step of the way.
“Look at the bigger pictures — the manga on the pages of these books — and memorize Japanese today,” says Professor Tomonori Morikawa of Waseda University, Tokyo.
Easy to learn
Fun to read
Actual manga
It really works
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Hiragana and Katakana 80 Essential Kanji 80 Essential Kanji 80 Essential Kanji 80 Essential Kanji
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80 Essential Kanji 80 Essential Kanji 184 Everyday Sound FX 120 Clever Contractions 80 Timeless Idioms
Publisher : Japanime Company, Limited; Volume 1 edition (March 8, 2005)
Language : English
Paperback : 144 pages
ISBN-10 : 4921205027
ISBN-13 : 978-4921205027
Reading age : 13 – 16 years
Item Weight : 5.6 ounces
Dimensions : 5 x 0.33 x 7.1 inches
Customers say
Customers find the book helpful for learning basic kanji and memorizing Hiragana. They describe it as a creative tool that integrates manga with studying kanji. The concept is well-thought-out and cool.
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