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Summary: Excellent learning tool
Review: My son takes Japanese in college. He zipped through learning the hiragana & katakana, but has really had to work at learning the kanji. He has used the first set of cards for three months now and says they are the only useful tool he has found. He still has to work, especially to write the kanji as opposed to just recognizing them, but he says these cards are a huge help to him.
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Summary: Essential learning tool
Review: The Tuttle Kanji Cards (both sets I and II) are invaluable tools for learning Kanji. I have just returned from Japan where I was able to read menus, train station and public signs.A relatively small time spent each day (waiting for, or riding on, public transport is excellent for this) will help to expand your kanji knowledge dramatically. Unlike vocab lists in books, the cards are easy to carry around, and can be sorted in easy/hard piles etc. While do-it yourself flash cards are usually good in the case of Kanji I feel it is better to get pre-designed ones to avoid making errors.
I would strongly recommend anyone to buy the cards and USE them (don't leave on the shelf as I first did for many months!) Gambatte!
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Summary: Very useful tool!
Review: These are very good, functional flashcards! These are an excellent addition to any Japanese language students already large pile of reference materials! However, I found these cards to be somewhat hard to keep together. They each measure about 2x3 inches (and there are so many of them). They should have made the box so you could keep them together according to grade. But don't let that stop you from buying these, as they are well worth the price. I especially like to use these cards along with Kanji Gold.
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Summary: There are better cards on the market
Review: These cards are alright, but the cards by White Rabbit Press are a true 5 star product. The Tuttle cards are small, thin, have only 4 kanji compounds, many of which are not commonly used. They have some typos, and the overall design is kind of ugly--the indentation is not consistent and the stroke order diagrams are handwritten! The White Rabbit Japanese Kanji Flashcards by comparison are beautifully designed poker-size cards with 6 compounds, look-alike characters and *imporant* hiragana and katakana (instead of romaji), and they come in a very nice box. It's hard to get the tuttle cards back into their box.
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Summary: Well conceived, but poorly produced.
Review: These cards are exactly the right flash card to memorize kanji by sight, but they are so tiny that they are easily disorganized and the phonetic translations on the back are in romaji (roman letters). So this product recieves a 'c'. I also doubt that memorizing by sight is the best way to memorize kanji. Repetition by writing seems to work better for me.
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Summary: You need these
Review: These cards are good for memorizing the kanji. They have the vital information you need to know the meaning and the writing and the on & kun reading.
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Summary: Pretty good
Review: These cards are pretty good and I was able to improve my Kanji reading skills. Good for vocabulary as well. One problem I have with these cards is the choice of compounds they use. In many cases, the compounds are not the most common ones and in some cases, you really have to just wonder why they picked them at all. But I did buy the second set after learning the first set so I do think they are well worth it.
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Summary: Very useful companion
Review: These cards are very useful for memorizing kanji if you learn through flashcards effectively. The cards are rather small however, and one must be careful not to misplace/lose any of them since there are so many. The box they come in also is very tight, trying to get them all back in properly is a bit of a task, so you may want to find some other holder to place your kanji cards in instead.
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Summary: Squeeze the kanji into your head
Review: This is a one of a kind tool to memorize the kanji. Spread them around your home...in the bath, by the bed, on the kitchen table...if you take a look at them at least once a day, you'll learn a bombastic amount of characters in no time. A must have.
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Summary: A very useful tool for the visually-dependent Jpnese student
Review: This set of 440 flash cards was a great help to me when I went to Japan in Feb 97. I knew about 2 or 3 hundred kanji then. Now I'm addicted and know about 1500. I just read that the second set of cards has been published and hope to get the complete set of everyday-use (jooyoo) kanji.
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