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Crazy for Kanji: A Student's Guide to the Wonderful World of Japanese Characters
$19.95
Paperback
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BOOK DETAILS

  • Paperback
  • Feb.12.2009
  • 9781933330204

Eve gives an overview of the book:

Crazy for Kanji provides the context sorely missing from most classes and books about kanji. Jam-packed with exhibits, the book supplies background information, explores fun themes, and challenges readers with games. Novices will gain the basic knowledge needed to grasp kanji, and advanced students will come to understand kanji as they’ve never understood it before.
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Crazy for Kanji provides the context sorely missing from most classes and books about kanji. Jam-packed with exhibits, the book supplies background information, explores fun themes, and challenges readers with games. Novices will gain the basic knowledge needed to grasp kanji, and advanced students will come to understand kanji as they’ve never understood it before.

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For an in-depth understanding of each Joyo kanji (the 2,136 characters needed for basic literacy in Japan), be sure to check out my new project, Joy o' Kanji: www.joyokanji.com!

About Eve

Eve Kushner is a writer in Berkeley, California. In February 2009, Stone Bridge Press published her second book, Crazy for Kanji: A Student's Guide to the Wonderful World of Japanese Characters. Eve's first book, Experiencing Abortion: A Weaving of Women's...

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Published Reviews

Feb.23.2009

Highly recommended. Kushner details her passion for kanji in an entertaining, humor-laced narrative chock-full of information, examples, and games. Anyone who has suffered through humdrum kanji learning...

Feb.23.2009

In Crazy for Kanji, Eve Kushner takes kanji's raw ingredients and serves them up in ways that are delicious, surprising, and so satisfying. She breaks them apart like a garlic clove. She lovingly arranges...