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Kanji from the Start: A Comprehensive Japanese Reader
Authors Martin Lam, Kaoru Shimizu
Publisher Kodansha
CategoryReaders
ISBN477001936X [COPAC, Webcatplus, Wikipedia]

Review by Edmund Ronald

Book divided into 12 lessons, and the usual appendices. A lesson consists of an unnanotated text page (about 500 characters), followed by a reading and tranlsation page, then a character by character gloss and a grammar explanation. The character gloss is the usual graphics/etymology stuff, I only ... read more


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