ハード&ソフト

Good and bad points
great but beware
Character Assassination...in the nicest way
Why should adults who have learned to think conceptually be relegated to rote memory as Japanese children are? Heisig teaches us to separate the writing of the kanji from its pronunciation, and focus on its connection to the meaning of the character in this book. Then after one has mastered the writing of the required kanji, one can go to book II in the series to focus on the readings.

Of course, this method will prove less useful to those who are currently trying to master kanji they are learning in a language class. This method is better learned independently from the classroom, and if possible, before the rest of the language is picked up.

Heisig's method focusses on what he calls primitives, that is, the smaller pieces that make up more complicated characters. By learning kanji in groups based on primitives, the adult mind is able to pick up (and not forget) characters at a much quicker pace than by rote memory. And considering that even adult Japanese have trouble remembering how to write characters (especially with the advent of the wapro, computer and cell phone), the foreigner can expect great difficulty in remember how to write kanji without a method such as these.'> THE Way for Foreigners Not to Forget the Writing of Kanji