{"id":27,"date":"2004-07-03T19:30:44","date_gmt":"2004-07-03T09:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.localguy.com\/japan\/learn-japanese\/textbooks\/read-japanese-today\/"},"modified":"2005-07-08T21:02:21","modified_gmt":"2005-07-08T11:02:21","slug":"read-japanese-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/learn-japanese\/textbooks\/read-japanese-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Read Japanese Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"book-ad\" ><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?path=ASIN\/0804804966&amp;link_code=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;tag=thunderguycom-20&amp;creative=9325\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/japan\/wp\/wp-content\/pic\/read-japanese-today.jpg\"\/><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thunderguycom-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0804804966\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"author\">Len Walsh<\/p>\n<p>This excellent book is great value. The kanji (Chinese characters) used in Japanese seem impossible to learn at first (there are thousands of them), but this book gives a glimpse of where they came from and how they can be learned. Spend a few hours reading this book, and you will be able to recognise and know the meaning of a couple of hundred kanji. It shows how fascinating the kanji are, and whets your appetite for the far more detailed (and long) method in &#8220;Remembering the Kanji&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This book has no index, but it would be much more useful if it did have one. I&#8217;ve typed up my own <a href=\"\/japan\/read-japanese-today-index.html\">Read Japanese Today index<\/a>; you can share the fruits of my labour. There&#8217;s no need to thank me. But it would be nice. It&#8217;s nice to be nice.<\/p>\n<p>You can buy this book at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?path=ASIN\/0804804966&amp;link_code=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;tag=thunderguycom-20&amp;creative=9325\">Amazon.com<\/a>. If you&#8217;re in Europe, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?path=ASIN\/0804804966&amp;link_code=as2&amp;camp=1634&amp;tag=bennettarium-21&amp;creative=6738\">Amazon.co.uk<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.co.uk\/e\/ir?t=bennettarium-21&amp;l=as2&amp;o=2&amp;a=0804804966\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Len Walsh This excellent book is great value. The kanji (Chinese characters) used in Japanese seem impossible to learn at first (there are thousands of them), but this book gives a glimpse of where they came from and how they can be learned. Spend a few hours reading this book, and you will be able [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}