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Review title: A handy companion, but slightly outdated
Product review: A Guide to Reading and Writing Japanese is an extremely handy Kanji dictionary, referance and drawing guide to the characters. It also includes Kana and Hiragana in the back of it, as well as there stroke orders. This is the second revised edition 1961, the book says it can take you to a 6th grade level of writing if you learn all that is in it, however standards have slightly changed... The amount of characters learned per grade, and the characters learned in each grade has somewhat changed from the publication of this book. For instance one can even tell its age looking at the first page where it lists Shi as Four, this was changed well over two decades ago because Shi also means death and makes many Japanese feel uncomfortable using it.This is a great book, but I suggest the third revised edition (2003) as its more up to modern standards, not that this edition is bad in any way, you just might find yourself using some outdated characters here and there.
