Title: Very helpful to me!
Product review: After struggling to learn kana by staring at them over & over and using rote memorization I became quite frustrated. But using the visual association/mnemonics in this book, I quickly learned both hiragana and katakana! I can now look at the formerly indecipherable characters and make some sense out of them, and am now embarking on the study of kanji. I'd highly recommend this book to anyone who has tried learning kana the hard way (repeating them over and over, ad nauseum) and given up.My only complaint is the size of the book (it's only 3X5 inches), and that he only provides memory aiding drawings for the base kana, but glosses over the voiced sounds, doublers, combined forms, etc. (for example, a drawing/memory aid is provided for ho, but not bo or po!). But this book really accelerated my learning of kana, and I highly recommend it. And it's cheap, so if you don't like it, at least you aren't out a lot of money ...
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