The 2008 (and 9) weaboos learning Japanese thread *chairs are thrown at miles*

Originally Posted by Little Shithead

Or, if you're not quite ready to jump into getting a real kanji dictionary, I would then recommend you at least get Kanji & Kana: A Handbook of the Japanese Writing System, by the same authors. It has all of the jouyou kanji and about 300 jinmeiyou kanji. While it is not a complete dictionary of kanji, like the other one, it is certainly a very good basic dictionary of kanji for learning purposes.

I love that dictionary. I've had it since I started "studying", uh... six years ago. You'd never guess that I'd started that long ago, because I'm a lazy mofo.

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Originally Posted by Miles

Not text books. Genki itself is doing fine. Though I'm thinking of getting a kanji flash card kit. I wanna learn more kanji then the 15 or so we learn every lesson. But yeah, I'm looking more at actual books or raw japanese manga that's easy for beginners. I'll check out Doraemon.

Manga is probably the best way to go, then -- if there's a Kinokuniya (japanese books import store) near you, definitely check it out. :3 Otherwise, you can order stuff from Amazon.co.jp.

Unfortunately for text-based weeaboos, actual japanese kids' books are written primarily in hiragana. If you have oral-based vocabulary, you can tackle them, but if you're dependent on kanji (like me), you may be stuck. ^^;

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