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Title: Too basic; get Let's Learn Katakana instead
Review: This is a nice book with many beautiful illustrations and colors, which makes it great for kids, but it doesn't help much with learning Katakana. All the characters are there with the proper strokes, but nothing is mentioned about important concepts like how to end strokes (tome - "stop"; hane - "jump"; harai - "sweep") and diacritical marks (changing ka into ga for example). I feel that it is a very limited learning tool.On the other hand, I highly recommend "Let's Learn Katakana" (Let's Learn Katakana: Second Book of Basic Japanese Writing) and the other books from that series.
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