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chochajin
13 July 2008 @ 04:09 pm
[Japanese]: Quick question  
Uh, 2 posts in 1 day?
What's wrong with me? XD

I have a question to my Japanese learning f-list:
Does anybody know where I can get a hold of the GERMAN (!!!) version of Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji"? I mean here in Japan!?
Or .. even better, if I can find a download link for the whole book somewhere? I only have the sample, not the whole book in German!
(I mean I could order it via amazon.de and then my family would have to send it to me, but that takes TOO long and is way to expensive ...)

As I'm in Japan it seems that I can only get hold of the English version, but for a book like this I think the German version would be WAY better!

Help?


Good night (^-^)/

EDIT: Problem solved!
I couldn't find it while searching for the title, but looking for the ISBN works wonders. YAY!
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[identity profile] naukhel.livejournal.com on July 13th, 2008 03:14 pm (UTC)
Is there really a German version? I know that one of my teachers at university in Japan was French and he had to buy the English book and write his own French translations of all the words into it as he read it, but maybe he just had the same trouble you did getting hold of a translated copy in the country.

However, I don't know if you've read the book before already? But I own it and I don't find it's right for me at all. To learn kanji from it would require that I un-learn a lot of things I already understand about it, and it will only teach you to recognise and not to read (as in, it doesn't teach you the Japanese readings for any of the kanji-- only the meaning, so you would never be able to read it out loud). I know that when I learn to read Japanese I have to be able to read it in my head in Japanese, so I've found it quite useless as a method of learning.

I know you may already know this and think it's a good idea, and if so that's great!! Really great! But just in case you didn't know, I wanted to warn you before you spent a lot of money on a book you might not use. I know you already learn Japanese in a conventional manner, so maybe the method of learning will not work for you in the same way it doesn't work for me.
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[identity profile] chochajin.livejournal.com on July 13th, 2008 03:19 pm (UTC)
Ther is, there is.
Otherwise I wouldn't ask XDDDD
I don't want to pay 14€ extra though :/ ... plus it would take aournd 2 weeks until I finally have it in my hands whereas I already have the English version, so I wouldn't waste money on that.
But as the whole book works on how good you can remember the keywords and make your own stories I'm SURE that a version in your mother tongue would be WAAAAAAAAAAY better for obvious reasons.

Plus I heard that the German keywords are a little bit closer to the original meaning of the kanji compared to the English version.

I know that, too XDDD That's what I just wrote in my previous comment, but as it was in German you couldn't have known, sorry for that ;)
I've really struggled a long time, read a LOT ... and gave it a lot of thought.
I know about ALL the pros and cons, but I wanna give it a try now :)

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