The Kodansha Kanji Learner's Course
by Andrew Scott Conning · first published 2013
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"The Kodansha Kanji Learner's Course is an innovative and highly effective system for learning and remembering kanji, or Sino-Japanese characters. The book contains 2,300 character entries, including all 2,136 Joyo Kanji ("regular-use kanji") plus 164 of the most useful non-Joyo Kanji. It offers learners a sophisticated, pedagogically sound method for remembering the basic meaning of each character, conveniently summarized in concise keywords to facilitate memorization. Each kanji is accompanied by an explanation of how to remember its meaning clearly and distinctly. These mnemonic explanation
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…the kanji separately really helped my Japanese studying. If nothing else, it's kept me from falling too far behind the Chinese and Taiwanese students in class... The book I used for the kanji is The Kodansha Kanji Learner's Course by Andrew Scott Conning. Can't recommend it enough. https://www.amazon.com/Kodansha-Kanji-Learners-Course-Step/d...
on “Jōyō kanji variants: The curious case of 叱 and 𠮟 (2016)” ↗Recommendation: "The Kodansha Kanji Learner's Course" by Andrew Scott Conning is a modern version of RTK. Same concept, but better organization, more kanji, and a more natural layout and learning order.
on “A Year of Spaced Repetition Software in the Classroom” ↗…essentially just have to memorise them, something you can only do on your own. There are several ways of learning Kanji, each with their benefits and drawbacks, such as WaniKani, Remembering the Kanji, Kodansha Kanji Learner's Course, etc. Ultimately, Kanji are painful and time-intensive to learn, so none of these will be perfect, but you can maybe spend some initial time trying to find out which works best for you and then just stick…
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