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Speak and Read Japanese: Fun Mnemonic Devices for Remembering Japanese Words and Their Meanings
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Modeled on the same winning format as his Speak and Read Chinese, teacher Larry Herzberg's latest book offers simple, fun, and imaginative ways to remember essential Japanese words and characters. Mastering basic vocabulary and kanji is one of the first challenges any Japanese learner faces. This book addresses this task head-on, complementing the content of all major Japa
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This had a lot of promise. It uses mnemonics, in the style of Remembering the Kanji , to help readers retain key vocabulary items. Only the memory aids in RTK are more tightly coupled. For example, he shows the radical for person and the radical for tree and has a person resting under a tree (the kanji is to rest). Here we're told to remember oi means nephew because Jews say "oy vey" about rambunctious nephews.
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"You take your medicine 'cause you're sick" (kusuri - med ...more
Here are a few notable ones.
"You take your medicine 'cause you're sick" (kusuri - med ...more
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Larry Herzberg studied Chinese for five years at Vanderbilt University before doing his Master's and Ph.D. work in Chinese Language and Literature at Indiana University. In 1980 he founded the Chinese Language Program at Albion College and then did the same at Calvin College in 1984. For the past three decades he has taught the Chinese language at the college level.
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