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| | Amazon.com: Kana de Manga (Manga University Presents): Books: Glenn Kardy,Chihiro Hattori (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Considering that my kiddo has had the book only two days and is already telling me that "kiku" is chrysanthemum and yon-yon (4th day 4th month, or April 4) is Yo-Yo Day in Japan, I think I can safely say the book was a good investment. |
 | | Oh, about the "is it complete or is it not?" debate between previous reviewers--they're both wrong :-) The kana characters, when modified with the dakuten (two little lines) or handakuten (tiny circle), do indeed become different "letters" (really syllables), just as an N (en) and an N-tilde (enye) are two different letters in Spanish. |
 | | However, the introductory material covers the use of the diacritical marks (dakuten changes K->G, S->Z, T->D, and so on; handakuten changes H->P). |
| www.amazon.com /Kana-Manga-University-Presents/dp/4921205019 (1986 words) |
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