Crazy for Kanji: A Student's Guide to the Wonderful World of Japanese Characters - Softcover

Kushner, Eve

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1933330201 ISBN 13: 9781933330204

Publisher: Stone Bridge Press, 2007

Synopsis

Rare Book

About this title

Review:

Drawing on her sharp intellect, sense of humor, and tireless ability to ask all the right questions, ... Kushner seduces us from Page 1.... --"Kanji Clinic" by Mary Sisk Noguchi, Japan Times columnist

Kushner ... presents excellent learning strategies.... Her enthusiasm ... is infectious.... Kushner doesn't shy away from complexities.... She tackles them head on. --Asian Review of Books, by Todd Shimoda

Funny as well as educational, offering hundreds of games, lessons, and believe-it-or-nots.... Brilliantly merges the contemporary ... with the antique. -- East Bay Express, by Anneli Rufus

Fun and informative read for people who are interested in the origins of language or simply want ... ways to make kanji easier. -- Nichi Bei Times, by Sarah Yuen

How I wish I had had Eve Kushner's brilliant Crazy for Kanji to begin my journey. --Choate Rosemary Hall Bulletin, by Katharine Jewett, the head of the languages department

From the Back Cover:

Memorizing kanji--Japanese written characters--and their thousands of shapes, sounds, and meanings might drive anyone crazy. And here's something crazier: a whole book about kanji--where they come from, why they look the way they do, what they say about Japan, and how to learn them faster. The perfect book for students and teachers, Crazy for Kanji is filled with facts, examples, cultural clues, charts, dozens of photographs of kanji in action, and games and puzzles to challenge and entertain.

About this edition

• Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1933330201
• ISBN 13: 9781933330204
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 212