title: Kanji De Manga: YojiJukugo
author:  Glenn Kardy 
description: These cute, little books use manga-style graphics to help English speakers learn the Japanese writing systems. <i>Kana de Manga: A Fun, Easy Way To Learn the ABCs of Japanese!</i> teaches the hiragana and katakana syllabaries, the closest that Japanese has to an alphabet. For each kana are provided the sound, a word using the sound with accompanying illustration and cultural note, the stroke order for drawing the kana, and empty grids for practice. Front and back matter provide kana contractions plus more information about the kana systems. Almost 40 pages are devoted to practice grids, unnecessary for library readers. The volume is inexpensive, cute, and useful, although other kana tutorials that use mnemonics that is, likening the kana to an image can be effective, too.
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  [Copyright](../Text/part0008.xhtml#a39C)
  
  
  
  
  
  Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki, Vol. 4
  
  
  YUKI YAKU
  
  
  Cover art by Fly
  
  
  Translation by Winifred Bird
  
  
  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are
  the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any
  resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is
  coincidental.
  
  
  JAKU CHARA TOMOZAKI-KUN LV.4
  
  
  by Yuki YAKU
  
  
  © 2016 Yuki YAKU
  
  
  Illustration by FLY
  
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  
  Original Japanese edition published by SHOGAKUKAN.
  
  
  English translation rights in the United States of America, Canada, the United
  Kingdom, Ireland, Austral