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Kanji from the Start is for students of Japanese who need to know kanji in order to acquire and improve Japanese reading skills. Specially designed for classroom use as well as for easy reference, it introduces over 600 commonly-used kanji and more than 1,000 compounds through informative and conceptualized texts related to politics, science, finance, and computing, among other subjects. FEATURES ¥General background information on kanji and reading Japanese ¥Notes on kanji--radicals, readings, derivations, meaning, and usage of over 600 kanji--clearly displayed and explained for quick reference ¥Clever mnemonics make even complicated kanji easy to remember ¥Full coverage of grammar and syntax ¥A comprehensive index to the kanji by radical, a Japanese-English glossary, and a full list of verb conjugations