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Identifying Useful Phonetic Components of kanji for Learners of Japanese

Japanese Language and Literature, Vol. 47, No. 2 (October 2013), pp. 235-272 (38 pages) The role of kanji phonetic components in the reading of Japanese words written with multiple kanji characters ...
Japan Today

Three manga to learn kanji, katakana and old Japanese as recommended by a Japanese teacher

Good news for Japanese learners. Kadokawa Corporation has published three new books about the Japanese language. The three books are part of the のびーる国語 nobiru kokugo (stretch your Japanese language ...
GIGAZINE

What does the word in kanji found in Taiwan mean in Japanese?

Snowboarding is "U shape plate"For natural perms"LhiKanji called head (ramen head) was hit, I doubted my eyes. Unlike Korean Korean and Arabic script Egypt, China is a kanji country. I can read the ...
Nippon

A Disastrous Kanji of the Year? “Wazawai” Picked as Top Character for 2018

The year 2018 brought powerful earthquakes, brutal summer heat, torrential rains and flooding, and terrifying typhoons to Japan. It’s no wonder that the public selected 災 (sai or wazawai), meaning ...
朝日新聞社

Kanji for ‘tax’ becomes word of 2023 for political disputes

KYOTO--“Zei,” or tax, was selected as the kanji character of 2023, reflecting heated political debate over tax policies. The Kyoto-based Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation announced on Dec. 12 ...
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Beliefs about Language Learning and Their Relationship to the Ability to Integrate Information from Word Parts and Context in Interpreting Novel Kanji Words

This study explores the relationship between the strategies second language learners use to interpret unfamiliar words in a target language, and their general epistemological beliefs (i.e., beliefs ...