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Let's Learn Katakana
First Book of Basic Japanese Writing
Author Yasuko Kosaka Mitamura
Publisher Kodansha
SeriesLet's learn ...
CategoryKana
ISBN0870117092 [COPAC, Webcatplus, Wikipedia]

Review by Allen Childs (MistaKefka)

(This review also covers Let's Learn Hiragana).

These books are what I used to learn Hiragana and Katakana. I actually just copied the Hiragana and Katakana out of these onto flash cards and learned them that way, so these books weren't actually must-haves for me, even at the time, but they are nice for starting out, and provide more things (explaining the differences in the alphabets, practice drills, etc.) than something like the kana chart in the front of a dictionary, therefore, I would recommend this be your first purchase in learning to read Japanese.


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