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Kana Flashcards

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List Price: $22.00
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Manufacturer: White Rabbit Press

Binding: Cards
Dewey Decimal Number: 495
EAN: 9780974869438
ISBN: 0974869430
Label: White Rabbit Press
Manufacturer: White Rabbit Press
Number Of Pages: 100
Publication Date: 2006-07-01
Publisher: White Rabbit Press
Studio: White Rabbit Press

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Editorial Reviews:

Each of our Kana Flashcards includes a memorable verbal and visual mnemonic, provided by award-winning illustrator Michael Rowley. Along with stroke-order diagrams and hundreds of vocabulary building example words, Kana Flashcards is sure to become the most desirable product on the market for kana learners.

Each stroke-order-diagram includes arrows to indicate stroke direction. Each example word is written in kana on the card front with the English reading and definition on the flipside.

Along with the Audio Companion, these cards include all the information you need to recognize and remember, to read and write, and to pronounce hiragana and katakana in no time at all.

• Master hiragana and katakana with visual and verbal mnemonics.
• Learn 450 basic Japanese words.
• Includes stroke-by-stroke diagrams.

Varnished cards with rounded corners. Boxed with plastic tray and shrink-wrapped.

Spotlight customer reviews:

Customer Rating:

Summary: Sturdy Flash Cards
Comment: The Cards are most excelent, like a high quality deck of playing cards. Characters on one side, and Romanji pronunciation on the other. They have about the character, and something to help you remember it as well as five words written out using that character with others. There is a CD audio companion for this set. The CD has 1 track per card so that you can listen to the 5 words for just that card. This CD is totally worthless with out these cards. I love thses cards. Both Hiragana, and Katakana, well worth the investment if you want to learn these two styles of characters. Be aware that there is a third style of character, Kanji, of which there are about 2000 that you need to know if you want to pick up a Japanese news paper and read it. I haavenot bought the Kanji set yet, but I surely will.

Customer Rating:

Summary: Best flash cards for Japanese!
Comment: As a first year Japanese student I knew flash cards would be helpful and i spent so much time making my own that i realized i should just buy some! These are much sturdier than the paper index cards I was using they stay clean don't bend easy and really help with memorization, The pictures are a REAL help, best way to learn Hiragana/Katakana is the "looks like a. . . " method. At least for everyone in my class. Plus you get some good vocabulary. I even hole punched the katakana set and put them on a ring, so i could take them with me.
Great great product for any Japanese student!

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Summary: Mneumonics are a lifesaver
Comment: I read the reviews before buying this product and I agree with most reviews--I love these cards. However, I am a little suprised that not that many people commented on how useful the mneumonics are.

(By "mneumonics" I mean the memory tricks like on the product picture--the symbol for "ki" looks sort of like a key.)

Admittedly, some of these are a bit of a stretch, but I would have never sat down and thought up cute tricks like this myself, neither would I have guessed how strongly they improve memory retention. Huge difference! At a very leisurely pace I was able to recognize both Hiragana and Katakana after only a week. Regurgitating the symbols from the romanized syllables will of course take longer.

Great product.

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Summary: Excellent start to learning the Japanese language
Comment: These cards have been invaluable in getting me started on the right path to learning the Japanese language. I am a beginner student...very beginner. I've picked up the Pimsleur program and Rosetta Stone, and am trudging through the first few lessons. However, these flash cards provided the solid foundation which I am now building upon with these other programs.

Learning the Hiragana and Katakana characters takes perhaps an hour (each) with these cards. Once you have them figured out, it's only a matter of repetition to ensure you learn them in long-term memory. My method for using these cards was simple: pick up the first 5 cards, and flash them until you have those cards memorized. Then add 5 more cards and flash all 10. Keep adding cards in sets of 5 until you have the whole deck of either Hiragana or Katakana memorized. While doing this, I think it's important that you speak each character out loud, rather than in your head. Ultimately, if you are learning Japanese you are probably learning to speak it, and speaking each character now will make learning and speaking full words much easier. Kana are the building blocks of Japanese vocabulary, and I have found it much easier to pick up new words once I had these characters mastered.

You may need to find a source online to find the proper sounds for each character. While the examples provided on the cards work in most cases, I find them a little sketchy sometimes. I think this may be because of differences in how some words may be read in different English dialects. I suggest finding a secondary (audio) source online to provide the correct pronunciation of each character. Taking the effort now to get these sounds correct will prevent any possible problems later, such as incorrectly learning a sound and having to relearn it (along with every word which uses it!).

If you are self-teaching the Japanese language, these cards are a necessary first step.

Customer Rating:

Summary: Fantastic
Comment: No joke, taught myself to read hiragana and katakana in a week - and that on a ten minute subway ride to and from work! If you are visual learner, this set will teach you to read the kana quickly. Simple as that. Very impressed by White Rabbit Press.

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