https://imgur.com/a/BKDYyzg – imgur link to a few images of the book and its contents
I am still very much a beginner, I know maybe 100 kanji and can say some sentences. For me, I really enjoy kanji and learning their meanings and their patterns.
This book seems like a great resource for learners like me. It breaks down each kanji to its constituent parts and explains them all, often delving into the history and more ancient symbols which came together to form a given symbol. I find this enriches my learning a lot and helps me to remember new symbols.
It is arranged in the order students would learn kanji in Japan, starting with 一、右、雨 and ending on its last page with symbol 1945 腕.
As I study the Kaishi 1500 deck in anki, which will be my primary resource for a while, I find myself always reaching for this book to gain a deeper understanding of the kanji. I also use renshuu dictionary and even ask chatGPT for basic grammar info (which for me is fine for now, I plan to use textbooks later on when I have a solid vocabulary base from kaishi deck – I am not going to rely solely on AI for grammar, but to me it's as good as if I had an uncle who spoke Japanese that I could ask – not always right, but helpful).
Anyway, yeah, I found this book on a shelf at a secondhand bookshop and it helped get me started in learning Japanese!! It was like fate. I bought it and I ended up spending several hours reading it, looking at kanji, breaking them down, studying the patterns, and it absolutely fascinated me. Now here I am studying almost every day 8 months later!
Happy learning!
Edit: Maybe I shouldn't have shared as much as I did, but I'm not that interested in your opinions of my learning approach, thanks! I'm just sharing a book I really love to use.
by i-lick-eyeballs