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Title: Beware! This book is not accurately titled
Review: I purchased this book. Unless you have a) photographic memory or b)a pretty good handle on the 1006 + 1945 characters already and just need a review every now and then, this book will be useless to you. It will be difficult to actually learn the kanji in such a way that you can recognize and write them at will, because this book is more like a dictionary listing terms and definitions.Even if you have a lot of time, there are smarter ways of learning Kanji. The Jorden-Harz books "Reading Japanese" for kanji and "Japanese The Written Language" for kana and kanji, are much better tools.Also, you can check the excellent "Kanji in Context" books from www.amazon.co.jp This series includes 2 workbooks and a better reference book. While it costs more to go this route, you save on time which is more precious in any case.It's not a bad book. The "Guide to" part of the title is deceptive though.
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