Kanji Look and Learn

I bought this on a whim from some recommendations online as I need some resources to take a step up on my Japanese learning and this is exactly what I needed for Kanji learning! I'd gotten to grips with certain Kanji, but there's a few where my brain won't click what they represent. This book essentially gives a Kanji reference and explanation, but it's main selling point is that it gives a visual reference to the Kanji with pictures and (sometimes funny) explanations - that way the information can go in a little better. I'd recommend this to anyone studying Japanese, honestly. Even if you're just struggling with a few words!

this has been very useful for my learning as I've always been a very visual person

Have used this extensively - totally worth it

Together with the workbook, it's a great way of slowly building up your kanji knowledge

Just what I wanted, has both Japanese and English explanations at the start

Very helpful for the beginners that wish for a helping hand in learning Kanji! 100% recommendation!

Best book ever. I have always been struggling when it came of memorizing. This books is well structured and now I really enjoy learning kanji.

an easy way to learn kanji. very simple to use and very helpful to discover ideogramms in this kind of book.

Moja ulubiona książka do nauki kanji. Przyszła bardzo szybko w 2 dni. Szkoda bardzo szkoda że ćwiczenia są do kupienia jako osobna książka.

I find the book to be very helpful, it provides explanations on different pronunciation of the kanji and example vocab, which is the main reason why I got the book. I’m using it mainly as a dictionary of kanji, and break down of stroke orders and strokes parts are invaluable in remembering how to write them. The index in the book is also excellent, with multiple ways of indexing to help you find the kanji you’re looking for (e.g. by stroke count, stroke parts, pronunciation). This book is marketed for non-Chinese native users, but as a chinese speaking native, I find the book to be equally helpful (though admittedly not the mnemonic part). I do find the binding of the book to be very odd though. It’s a soft cover book and the endpapers are partially glued to the covers, so when you open the book it makes the covers puff up. I snipped the papers to get rid of that since it was bothering me.

Me gustó todo de este libro. Se incluye las diferentes lecturas, los ejemplos de uso, la secuencia de la escritura de cada kanji y la ayuda mnemónica es muy buena. No tengo ninguna pega para este excelente libro.

Die Kanji, also die japanischen Schriftzeichen, die aus dem chinesischen entlehnt sind, sind nicht immer ganz einfach zu lernen. Dieses Buch gibt einen hilfreiche Tipps, wie man sich die einzelnen Kanji merken kann. Dies geschieht über kleine Piktogramme oder Bildgeschichten mit entsprechenden Erklärungen. So wird zum Beispiel das Wort 長い (lang) als eine Frau mit langen Haaren dargestellt. die Kanji sind grob dem Genki Buch entsprechend verteilt. Zusätzlich gibt es immer noch Beispiele mit anderen Bedeutungen oder anderen Aussprachen. Wer dann noch üben möchte, kann sich das entsprechende Arbeitsbuch holen.

It's a great book, not ideal for beginners that are taking up Japanese, but perfect for those that took at least two courses of it because you can refer back to this as a dictionary as well and the cute little drawings do make things easier to remember stroke order and meaning to the kana itself. I love it! Plan to using it and improve my Japanese.