Your First Kanji Lesson:
Understanding How Kanji Works in Japanese
This is the first lesson from the Kanji Startup Course.
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About the Kanji Startup Course
The Kanji Startup Course helps beginners build a strong foundation in reading and writing basic kanji used in everyday Japanese. Through clear, step-by-step lessons, you will learn 34 essential beginner kanji and understand how they are used in real sentences.
In this course, you will learn kanji that appear frequently in daily Japanese, including:
- Numbers (一〜十, 百, 千, 万)
- Money expressions (円)
- Everyday kanji such as 私・人・口・目・本
- Days of the week (日・月・火・水・木・金・土・曜)
- Time expressions (今・時・半・分)
- Question word (何)
Practice Materials Included
This course includes over 100 pages of printable practice materials designed to reinforce what you learn in the lessons.
Materials include:
• Kanji writing practice sheets
• Vocabulary lists for each kanji
• Example sentence lists
• Reading and writing worksheets
• Answer sheets for self-checking
• Kanji cards and exercises to practice vocabulary
What Makes This Course Different
Instead of overwhelming you with hundreds of characters, this course focuses on a carefully selected set of beginner kanji that gives you a strong foundation for reading basic Japanese.
By the end of the course, you will feel more confident:
- Recognizing common kanji in sentences
- Reading basic Japanese text
- Writing simple kanji correctly
- Understanding how kanji works together with hiragana
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