Tackling kanji - the system of Japanese writing based on Chinese characters - is the most challenging aspect of learning the Japanese language. 250 Essential Japanese Kanji Characters Volume 1 and Volume 2 are time-tested books that have now been enhanced and revised using proven methods from the Kanji Text Research Group at the University of Tokyo.

Tackling kanji - the system of Japanese writing based on Chinese characters - is the most challenging aspect of learning the Japanese language. 250 Essential Japanese Kanji Characters Volume 1 and Volume 2 are time-tested books that have now been enhanced and revised using proven methods from the Kanji Text Research Group at the University of Tokyo.

This whimsical look at Japan's "language of no language" introduces 70 gestures that will help you hurl insults, flirt, agree, excuse yourself, cross the street, and even make promises - wordlessly! Some are deadly, some are practical, and some are wacky, but all are genuine and used today on the streets of Japan, at home, and in manga and anime. Finally, a way to tell someone at a loud party, "Hey! Your underwear is showing!" in four easy hand motions.

All students of Japanese, whether they have studied physics or not, know the word "particle," and they realize that particles, like English prepositions, require a special effort to master. All About Particles covers 69 particles; the most common ones along with the less frequent. These particles have over 200 usages - sufficient to keep most students hard at work for a good many years.

Anime Studio is your complete animation program for creating 2D movies, cartoons, anime or cut out animations. Create your own desktop animated shorts in the style of SouthParkStudios.com and JibJab.com, or use it to produce full-length animation for film, video or streaming over the web. Draw original art, import your digital pictures, add sound, dub and add subtitles to your existing videos or choose from many built-in characters to get started!

Anime Studio Pro 6 is perfect for professionals looking for a more efficient alternative to tedious frame-by-frame detailing when creating quality animations. With an intuitive interface loaded with pre-rigged characters and additional content, Anime Studio Pro delivers advanced animation tools and effects to speed up your workflow.

ArtRage lets you explore your artistic side with digital paints and your screen as the canvas! You don't need expensive materials or a studio to enjoy all the fun of life-like oils. Play around with other tools such as pens, pencils, chalk, crayon, and glitter! Everything here is simple to learn because it behaves like its real-life counterpart, minus the mess!

This book presents some very basic words and phrases, along with some that are not usually considered "basic" at all, but the Mangajin method can make even advanced material accessible to students at all levels.

This book presents some very basic words and phrases, along with some that are not usually considered "basic" at all - but the Mangajin method can make even advanced material accessible to students at all levels.

For people wanting to take a step beyond the textbooks; for anyone wishing to speak like a native without spending two or three decades in the country learning how to do it - for such people as this, Beyond Polite Japanese has collected some 500 words and phrases of prodigious interest.

Having grasped the rudiments of Japanese grammar, what the student needs next are more words, more phrases, more turns of phrase. One answer to this problem is found in affixes - nifty little prefixes and suffixes, written with a single kanji, that can be attached to ordinary words to create new ones. Just as you can attach "super-" to almost any noun to create a new one (e.g., super interesting), you can attach its Japanese equivalent in the same way (e.g., cho-omoshiroi).

Business Japanese is for students of the Japanese language with a special interest in business, finance, and economics. Appropriate for self-study or classroom use, it teaches more than 1,700 kanji frequently used in Japanese business and economic newspapers and magazines. Written in both Japanese and English, this book is designed for students with a basic level of Japanese language skills.