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| Authors: Max Hodges, Tomoko Okazaki
Publisher: White Rabbit Press
Category: Book
List Price: $28.69
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Avg. Customer Rating:  49 reviews
Sales Rank: 20277
Media: Cards
Edition: 3rd
Pages: 284
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 4.9 x 1.3
ISBN: 0974869449
Dewey Decimal Number: 495
EAN: 9780974869445
ASIN: 0974869449
Publication Date: June 30, 2006
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| Customer Reviews:
 Nice Kanji! February 26, 2008
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
I bought these but I never spent much time with them. They seems like very good quality card with some complex explanations on there. I would recommend them, but I had to drop Japanese.
Great flashcards February 9, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
These cards are nicely made and provide great study material. I've taken them to Japan twice and studied them on the flights, trains, and so on, alternating with the JLPT vocab lists. If you get into a habit of spending five to ten minutes a day with them, you'll eventually pick up a ton of kanji. It's about the consistency rather than spending a lot of time in each session with them, so try to find a way to work them into your routine. Supposedly if you make your own flashcards you'll retain the info better, but that's a major time investment so I don't know if it will pay off in the long run; this probably depends on what type of learner you are. The JLPT level indicators were a big step forward in the recent edition, which shows how the folks at White Rabbit really put a lot of thought into their products.
A perfect choice for kanji learners December 5, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Before buying those flashcards I made an extensive research on the market and these proved to be the best choice. They provide plenty of useful information in a clear and organised manner, and are very nice to use. I feel they are helping me very much in my progress. I will surely buy the second volume as well!
quite helpful December 4, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
These flashcards turned out to be pretty useful for me. They are very comfortable to use - they have round corners and covered with plastic. Each kanji has a SOD diagram that is a necessity if you want to learn to write kanji correctly. On-readings are written in katakana and kun-readings - in hiragana (I hate romaji). I am a beginner so the number of examples for each kanji (6 examples per kanji) is quite enough for me. Though there is a little flaw - all cards have their own numbering and I can't find a proper kanji in edict for example using that number.
All in all this is a good way to learn kanji and get accustomed to using kana at the same time.
I guess these could be useful for some students... September 9, 2007
5 out of 10 found this review helpful
But to me, using software instead of paper flashcards makes a lot more sense. So these are collecting dust with other books while I review my vocabulary and kanji in a program.
>>Update by popular request:
I use Stackz! and I create the lists myself, using the Japanese IME (Input method) that came with Windows. It's been a while since my review, but I still haven't found a use for these physical cards, while I use Stackz! to review the writing of the kanji (with a list I created from "Remembering The Kanji") and some vocabulary (which I typed from the Japanese For Busy People series) every weekend. The Stackz! page has a lot of lists created by its users, even some JLPT lists, so perhaps you won't have to create a list from scratch.
Electronic flashcards are a lot better because you can use "spaced reviews", which effectively simulate the way human memory works. The more you review something, the less frequently you need to review it again. You can review a word one day after learning it, then 2 days, 4, 8, etc. This principle was popularized by Sebastian Leitner in the 70s and is today the basis for many language learning courses and software, including Pimsleur's.
The principle was integrated in Stackz! under the name "repeat advisor" and the spacing of each successive review is fully adjustable. You can follow Sebastian Leitner's method for classifying the cards after review (if you fail, it goes to the starting stack again), or the more forgiving "Stackz classic" method.
For this scientific study method to be successful with physical cards, you would have to write the date of the last review over it, and keep track of when you have to review it again, while avoiding to see the contents!... and each card needs to have only one question on one side (for example, a single word written in Kanji) and the answer on the other side (in this case, the kana reading and the translation). It is impossible to follow the method with cards that have more than one question (in this case, a word) printed. And it would be too cumbersome to handle such an amount of physical cards. It would be way too complex to try to keep such a record and neatly arranged stacks, too.
So, since a long time has passed since the 70s, computers came to help, and computer-assisted language learning adopted Leitner's principle. Take advantage of it. Check the "Flashcard" article on the Wikipedia.
You can use any good electronic flashcard software that fits your needs: Some are more automatic and some are more "manual". Shop around, read reviews and gambatte kudasai!
If you do want physical cards after all, these are the best. However, I hope this small introduction to scientific study methods was helpful.
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