Kanji Essentials Practice Workbook: Jlpt N5 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798644035106)

Geared towards those starting to learn Japanese Kanji, Book 1 of the Kanji Beginner Series features the first list of recommended characters. It eases you into understanding Kanji through simple and direct methods designed to retain what you've learned. While there are many kinds of approaches to learning Kanji, practice and repetition are still encouraged and this workbook does just that and more. Using the Kanji featured in the workbook, learn new vocabulary, and challenge yourself through the exercises. As you progress, you can choose to push yourself into reading short stories without the aid of Furigana.

A quick glance of the features:

• Kanji index reference with example words, sentences, and radicals
• Writing practice sheets cross-referenced with the index of featured Kanji
• Learn stroke order conventions and character-specific stroke orders
• Learn Kanji readings Kun'yomi and On'yomi
• Vocabulary exercises using the Kanji you've learned
• Short stories for reading comprehension and translation using the Kanji you've learned
• Designed to provide spaces for study notes and Furigana
• Optimized for self-study ideal for motivated language learners

The Reading Challenge

This workbook let's you take a first try on reading actual regular Japanese that has Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji. Meant to be a challenge, this exercise encourages you to start getting into the habit of noting things down while you try to read and understand the text, as real Japanese won't only have N5 Kanji characters. This is to push you to review, turn pages, even confirm with other sources, and note things down. While you progress into learning more and more characters, you will find that it'll get easier as you start getting used to the process. There will be some who will find the challenge easy, while some won't, but what's important is for you to get used to putting in the work to learn more and more characters.

After you've mastered Hiragana, Katakana and you're already comfortable with the basics of the language, you start getting excited, wanting to be able to read real Japanese but the the truth is, it won't be a walk in the park and it'll need time. Let this book be your starting point toward that goal.