 | Japanese for Busy People: Kana Version Bk. 1 (Japanese for Busy People Series) by Ajalt
Buy new: £11.25 / Used from: £8.50 Start with the kana right from the get-go because subsequent books use it almost exclusively, it will save later angst.
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 | Japanese for Busy People: Bk. 2 by Ajalt
Buy new: £11.49 / Used from: £10.32 |
 | Japanese for Busy People: v. 3 by Ajalt
Buy new: £11.45 / Used from: £9.54 |
 | The Handbook of Japanese Verbs by Taeko Kamiya
Buy new: £7.64 / Used from: £5.99 all the Kodansha handbooks are excellent
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 | All About Particles: A Handbook of Japanese Function Words by Naoko Chino
Buy new: £6.35 / Used from: £3.97 I would have been lost without this
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 | A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Sentence Patterns (Kodansha Dictionary) by Naoko Chino
Buy new: £8.35 / Used from: £5.90 has lots and lots of model Japanese sentences, really useful
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 | Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary by Jack Halpern
Buy new: £14.95 / Used from: £10.49 probably the best kanji dictionary available for students
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 | The Handbook of Japanese Adjectives and Adverbs by Taeko Kamiya
Buy new: £10.42 / Used from: £7.65 very useful
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 | Basic Kanji Book: v. 1 by Chieko Kano
Buy new: £33.58 / Used from: £40.58 kanji are never painless to learn, but this series gives lots of practice exercises - no answers provided, instead the answers are embedded in the kanji lesson section -you have to search them out!
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 | Basic Kanji Book: v. 2 by Chieko Kano
Buy new: £34.84 / Used from: £8.29 leads on from book 1. As with all this series, they are quite pricey, so try to get second-hand either here or even on Abebooks or Ebay.
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 | Intermediate Kanji Book Vol 1 by Kano et al
Buy new: £43.34 / Used from: £39.99 builds on the 'basic' books 1&2
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 | Intermediate Kanji Book Vol 2 by Kano et al
Buy new: £43.34 builds on intermediate 1 - by the time you get these 4 books of kanji memorized you'll be capable of reading at a native level, if you have the vocab to back it up!
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 | Random House Japanese-English, English-Japanese Dictionary by Seigo Nakao
Buy new: £2.99 / Used from: £0.39 Pretty good dictionary - Japanese and romaji, not the biggest dictionary I have encountered but portable and consice enough for study purposes.
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 | A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar by Seiichi Makino; Michio Tsutsui
Buy new: £36.13 / Used from: £59.95 I don't own this book, but I have it on good authority that it is really easy to use and well stocked with info.Rather expensive though
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 | Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar by Seiichi Makino
Buy new: £50.14 / Used from: £45.00 Similarly I don't own this one, but again fellow students have recommended it. Very ££££
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