 | Remembering the Kana: Hiragana and Katakana by James W. Heisig
Buy used from: £25.45 You'll learn the kana in no time. Just requires a little imagination and effort.
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 | Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary by Jack Halpern
Buy new: £15.01 / Used from: £10.49 Superb for all the kanji you'll need in day-to-day life; it's very beautiful also.
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 | An Introduction to Modern Japanese: Grammar Lessons Vol 1 by Richard John Bowring
Buy new: £42.50 / Used from: £59.15 A little too expensive, but word is that it's fantastic and can really boost your sk1llz. Feel free for Christmas or something, since you may be pushed to get it otherwise.
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 | Japanese Verbs at a Glance by Naoko Chino
Buy new: £6.68 / Used from: £4.92 Japanese verbs are sometimes very tricky to conjugate, so this book thoroughly takcles the problem.
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 | Colloquial Korean: A Complete Language Course (Colloquial Series) by Kim In-Seok
Buy new: £14.34 / Used from: £18.11 Seems like a good way to ease yourself into the Korean language. Provides text in both hangual and "romanization".
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 | Colloquial Korean: A Complete Language Course (PB + CD) by Andrew Inseok-Kim
Buy used from: £5.16 Good, but you'd better ease out some of the troubles (double constonants cover) with other books, too.
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 | College Korean by M C Rogers
Buy new: £33.20 / Used from: £26.67 Another good lesson-style book.
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 | Reading and Writing Chinese: Guide to the Chinese Writing System by William McNaughton
Buy new: £12.42 / Used from: £9.00 It's a good idea to get the basics of the writing system down first.
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 | What Character Is That?: An Easy-Access Dictionary of 5,000 Chinese Characters by Ping-gam Go
Buy new: £10.21 / Used from: £7.19 Superb Chinese dictionary. If you took Japanese first, many of the pictographs will look similar to you.
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 | Beginning Chinese (Yale Language) by Defrancis
Buy new: £23.75 / Used from: £11.33 Apparently another good Chinese learning book also.
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 | Read and Speak Chinese (Read & Speak) by Cheng Ma
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £3.85 Liking the look of this one too. Seems to cover the basics nicely.
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