Japanese Workbook Vol.6

About this book

THE FINAL 300 — COMPLETE THE SET: 1,520 KANJI AND 3,600 WORDS, ZERO OVERLAP.

Finished Vol.1 through Vol.5? The graded staircase is climbed — but real Japanese still has characters in reserve: the kanji on the sign at the station, the form at city hall, the notice at the hospital. This is the volume that teaches them.

Inside: 300 Joyo kanji that appear in none of the earlier volumes — every one checked against the official Joyo table (Agency for Cultural Affairs, 2010 revision) and chosen for how often you actually meet them in modern writing — each on its own study page with a step-by-step stroke-order build-up, a numbered stroke diagram, an example compound, and four full rows of practice squares (trace, copy, then write from memory). Then 600 new words in 20 themes of real Japanese life — government offices and procedures, rail and travel, shrines and festivals, food and cooking, farming and fishing, weather, animals, health, tools, school, work, shopping, media, sports, feelings, mountains and the sea, time and measurement, greetings and set phrases, onomatopoeia, and four-character idioms — every word with a reading, romaji, meaning, a natural example sentence, and space to write it three times.

Plus 12 new culture readings — a fifth set. Radio exercises in the morning park, the notice board that circles the neighbourhood, fresh bread at the town bakery, snow country roofs, the ama divers, the terraced rice fields, the fire brigade's night patrol, the gathering of twenty-year-olds, the night train, the village ferry, the lighthouse, and the stone steps of a mountain temple — in real advanced Japanese, with a full English translation, key words and questions on every reading.

18,700+ guided practice squares. Review quizzes close every part, with a full answer key and a kanji index at the back. A 12-week study plan in the front matter (25 kanji, 50 words and one reading a week) takes you through the whole book. Stroke order for all 300 kanji verified character-by-character against the KanjiVG database. One honest note: the Joyo table lists 2,136 characters in total; the characters this series does not cover are mostly low-frequency literary and specialist characters — the six volumes together cover the range everyday reading actually needs.

Inside: 300 kanji study pages · 600 words with example sentences · 12 culture readings (Japanese + translation + questions) · quizzes and answer key · 12-week plan.