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Title: Irrationally "Improved" edition
Review: The Classic Nelson, as noted below, was pretty sterling when it came to rapidly turning up a kanji. There's a vertical thumb index printed along the edge of the pages that works like animation when you flip the pages to find your radical. From a linguistic point of view, of course, the sooner you graduate from thinking in English about Japanese, to thinking in Japanese, the better off you are; however...! You'll need all the help you can get for a long time. So get Nelson. Any Nelson, but if possible, get the OLD Nelson, with the page-edge animation. If that's unavailable, you can also get computer assistance -- e.g., Sergey Kurkin's JEDict for Macintosh OS X 10.4 contains all the Kanji in Nelson with Nelson's own index numbers, and allows you to look up characters by dragging and dropping their parts into a list (among many other conveniences.) You should have a copy of Nelson, though. Don't leave English without it.
