Japanese Kanji Flash Cards Kit Volume 1: Kanji 1-200: JLPT Beginning Level: Learn 200 Japanese Characters Including Native Speaker Audio, Sample Sentences & Compound Words Cards – April 15, 2014

I was concerned that the flash cards may be difficult to read or not sturdy enough to carry with me in a jacket pocket. I was pleased with the small size of the cards yet with easily readable print, and with the strength of construction. I find the brief examples of use of the kanji printed on the cards helpful and instructive. The clever mnemonic pictures are occasionally useful as well. Overall, I'm very happy with this product. I intend to buy the second set, and would recommend these cards to an intermediate student of Japanese who has a working knowledge of hiragana and katakana.

I love these flash cards for studying kanji! The ring makes them very convenient to study in rapid succession. It is a great addition to your Japanese learning tool box.

I've used these "Tuttle" flash card for Chinese and personally I find them very helpful for review, but not for learning. Even though English pronunciation is included on the cards, in order to get the full use out of these cards you should already be able to read Hiragana. Fortunately there is a Hiragana set of cards in this line that will probably pop up in recommended products.Like with the Chinese cards I like the large font, the size of the card itself, and the carrying ring it comes with. It makes transporting them easy and the font makes them very readable. These are also include a little teaching aid to remember how the character goes, such as showing that Ichi, 一 looks like ONE finger. I also think it is a nice touch that the JLPT (Japanese Language Proficiency Text) level is printed on these cards, however keep in mind that the JLPT starts with 5 at its lowest and 1 at the highest.One thing I don't like about these is that unlike the Chinese cards, the Japanese series doesn't provide sample sentences, so they do not function as any sort of grammar instruction or reinforcement. Instead these just provide extra vocab words, including both on-yomi and kun-yomi readings, which is vitally important when learning the multiple ways a character can be pronounced and used. But you will have to use these cards in conjunction with another learning method or tool to really understand how to properly use this vocabulary.

Love these cards! Kanji on the front and detailed explanations on the back. Be warned however that the binder ring they give you is a little small. All 200 cards WILL fit, but they are pretty cramped.

I was in a JPN of 101 class and these were very helpful for memorizing, especially since they have the onyomi (chinese sound) and kunyomi (japanese sound). But if you are entirely unfamiliar with Japanese the different sounds might be confusing, since it's fairly contextual, as I have learned. Also if you don't know hiragana it'd be confusing, although I'm not sure why someone would choose to learn kanji before hiragana ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. These definitely improved my kanji quiz scores though.

Great study tool, but the drawings in the upper right-hand corner on the back of the cards aren't helpful. Should just get rid of them, they don't help you make sense of it. Other than that they are great and I am very glad I bought both sets.

This is a very simple but also effective method in the sense that it helps you break down a seemingly daunting task at first into very straightforward daily objectives (if you choose like I do to practice one new character per day). The cards themselves are fairly basic but can take a little bit of abuse as they are (thinly) laminated. Each character's drawing is broken down stroke by stroke so you can practice the proper way.I was looking forward to using the CD along with the writing practice, to make sure I remember the words based on their pronunciation in Japanese and not their English translation, but the CD enclosed didn't read in any of the players I have at my disposal (computer, car, stereo, I have a few). I contacted Amazon and they sent me a replacement, but same thing happened with the latter. I then contacted the manufacturer with the phone number provided with the instructions, and they proposed to mail me a new CD after testing it themselves to make sure it played properly. I received the CD a week later, and it does work but as a data file I downloaded on my iPod (not as a CD you can play on your car or home stereo).I was expecting the audio pronunciation to be helpful, and was disappointed that the characters are not read by themselves - only as a component to other words. This adds a difficulty to the learning process: you now have to identify the character as it is pronounced as part of several different words. Perhaps a little much to ask considering this is a beginner's method.

I've used a lot of material to study my Japanese but for Kanji, these are probably the best I've ever used. They're easy to carry around, they have some cute explanations on some cards to help you remember and they even have the stroke order. I wish I had bought these months ago.