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u/Vorzard · 6 pointsr/LearnJapanese

Forget the Mangaland books, Japanese the Manga Way is much better, well-structured, covers a great amount of grammar, and deals with the politeness levels.

You should get a reference book (A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar) with it, and The Kodansha Kanji Learners Dictionary.

u/Great_Wall · 2 pointsr/LearnJapanese

Agreed there. For day-to-day use, electronic dictionaries (that is, online dictionaries like Jisho.org, apps, Yomichan, etc. - not just one of these) trump paper dictionaries completely. Looking things up in a paper dictionary is incredibly time-consuming, and can also be frustrating because you will often forget something right after you look it up, especially if you're a beginner.

However! I think paper dictionaries can be great if you just go through them randomly, and for fun. I own a few Japanese dictionaries (namely this and this), and do just that, flipping through them, reading example sentences, making new connections, and occasionally having new vocab randomly stick by accident.

If I used my dictionaries to actually look things up every time I needed to, I'd go crazy pretty quickly, I think. But if I treat them like Wikipedia (ie, hopping all over the damn place because something new catches my interest every 30 seconds), then that's where I think their value is -- and I would argue that that experience with a physical book in your hands is hard to replicate in an electronic dictionary.

Though, to anyone who's new to Japanese, I'd still recommend going 100%-electronic and saving yourself some dosh. I'd only recommend the above if you like the "nostalgic" feeling of flipping through a book in your hands.

u/anothergaijin · 2 pointsr/LearnJapanese

RTK doesn't teach you to write them, long term it only teaches you to recall them on sight.

The fact that RTK doesn't teach pronunciation, meaning, or compound words makes it useless in my experience - 16 years of study and 10 years living and working in Japan in Japanese.

The only 'good' thing that RTK teaches is the concept of radicals, and how kanji are structured. The down side is that unlike what Japanese people learn (exactly what those radicals are, what they are called, and how to write them in various forms), RTK just barely skims the surface.

I've personally found this book to be far, far better than RTK - http://www.amazon.co.jp/The-Kodansha-Kanji-Learners-Dictionary/dp/1568364075/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1397048656&sr=8-3&keywords=kanji+dictionary

I have the old edition and am seriously considering getting the new one as well for the full kana readings

u/leu34 · 1 pointr/LearnJapanese

Maybe it just has a new name: The Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary: Revised and Expanded

I would have no problem to get it on amazon.de

u/Quetzacoatl85 · 1 pointr/japaneseresources

I have do admit I don't have much experience with Hadamitzky dictionaries besides looking up kanji info in an older one a while a go. But I have to say, if it's jukugo you're interested in, get this one instead, it's hands down the best kanji dic/jukugo list I have ever used. I'd go so far to say, I have never seen such a well made dictionary in any language. Thanks Jack Halpern!

http://www.amazon.com/Kodansha-Kanji-Learners-Dictionary-Expanded/dp/1568364075/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1414756817&sr=1-1-fkmr0&keywords=The+Learner%27s+Japanese+Kanji+Dictionary+%28Bilingual+Edition%29

u/sailorsun777 · 1 pointr/LearnJapanese

I don't have an online resource for you, but there's this AWESOME dictionary that I like called the Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary and they have all you need to know about kanji, from its base meaning to common compounds to stroke order, etc. I love the way it's structured and how much I've learned from just looking up a single kanji.

u/Mrstarker · 1 pointr/LearnJapanese

I would be inclined to say yes. It's not a system without flaws, as a number of people have pointed out in this thread, but it can be tweaked and supplemented with Firefox/Chrome userscripts to customize it to your needs. If you have money to spare, you might also consider a subscription to Satori Reader where you can set unknown kanji to display furigana according to your WK progress.

If money is an issue, however, the Kodansha course is a pretty good alternative. I have been using the Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary that the course is based on and it has been a really good supplement.

u/JohnnyNonymous · 1 pointr/LearnJapanese

Thanks for the detailed post. I think the textbook-search site'll be especially handy, since I've never heard of it before.

And since you seem to know of a lot of good resources, I have a few questions (if you don't mind).

  1. Would you happen to know the difference between these two Kodansha kanji dictionaries?

  1. I'm interested in the All About Particles book, and other such supplementary texts, but is there a chance that the Dictionary of Japanese Grammar series might make them redundant?

  2. How is Kodansha's Communicative English-Japanese Dictionary? Wouldn't it be redundant to the Furigana dictionary, which lets you do look-up in both JP-EN and EN-JP? Or is it nuanced enough to be worth it on its own?

    Thanks!