Master Japanese Writing: A Handwriting Practice Workbook for Hiragana and Katakana

Steph: Our kids enjoy this book. Great practice.

United States on Jul 28, 2023

Kairra: It's useful to see that the reviews show a chi/ri error in the book which I didn't know about. However, other than that this is a really helpful book for those just taking their first steps into Japanese and wanting some hand holding on their way into it. The letters are nice and big which gives room to practise and slowly neaten up. Each page shows you stroke order, the name of the letter, the pronunciation anf then gives you a page of practise boxes, some have shadow letters for you to copy and some are empty for you to practise solo.

For me, this was a great entry into Hiragana, precisely what I wanted and I'm really happy with it.

Poland on Jun 01, 2023

QR Winner: Shows you all the different methods of how they can be written. That is a feature I wasn't expecting and I do appreciate it. Thank you.

United States on May 12, 2023

OtterslothOttersloth: Many people have mentioned typos in their review, but I don't think you can call "yokupoopsu" for "bathroom" a typo! I can just imagine someone putting it in there as some kind of in-joke, but nobody caught it on the final edit??

I like the variety of examples, but I'll have to fix a few things before I show these to my students.

United States on Feb 19, 2023

TOMOKO: I am Japanese so this is not for me but I bought 3 and gave them to my friends who want to study Japanese, and they loved it. It's a great practice book!

United States on Jan 24, 2023

Lorna: My daughter loved this

United Kingdom on Jan 08, 2023

Kindle Customer: I actually bought this for my child and decided to keep it for myself and order another for them.

Canada on Sep 28, 2022

HanyuuHanyuu: It’s great quality! Has helpful pages and I like the variations off to the side. It’s a nice thick size and perfect for those learning Japanese! (At least I think so!)

United States on Aug 27, 2022

Spooky Krissy: Love it! Won't point out the errors as others already have. But I like it for my purpose to learn how to write the characters better. Very happy with my purchase 😊

Canada on Feb 07, 2022

Miira D.Miira D.: Near A4 size, 108pp (plus several additional practice sheets) soft back. White paper good enough quality that pencil, ballpoint ink, permanent black fountain pen ink nor a calligraphy marker pen bled through when tested.
Useful Index for both Hiragana and Katakana.

Characters are presented one per page with the following information: printed character (the sound with an English example and International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), stroke order, stroke progression and a very useful list of variations (along side of page) and finally an example word showing character among others. Below there is a 13x13 grid practice space with initial three rows and the first column completed faintly for tracing.

In the section after the character practice, there is a section on diacritics (Dakuten and Handakuten) giving examples of the new 25 syllabic sounds that can be produced using them and Hiragana Yoon Digraphs and their combinations.

Lastly, there are several gridded practice sheets available for photocopying.

The previously mentioned error on page 44 (Ri is labelled as Chi) is still there is my copy but to mention the IPA is correct for (Ri) so the error is minor...

United Kingdom on May 09, 2020