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• Author: Bill Krauss, Los Angeles, CA USA
  I tried everything: books, workbooks, word lists, and online homemade flashcards. The White Rabbit Press Kanji Cards are by far the best Kanji learning tool I've found. Thanks for a great product!
• Author: Jeff
  Before this set went on the market, I tried using some other kanji cards that I bought in Japan, and was disappointed. They all have problems, such as useless vocabulary examples, poor durability, or random organization.
  
  These are the best kanji cards on the market, even in Japan, and are designed especially for English speakers. They're highly durable, and are organized by JLPT level. This ensures that you're learning the most important kanji first.
  
  Learning these JLPT level 2 kanji is not a simple thing. There are over 700 cards, and it takes time, effort and patience. I've now completed a "brief introduction" to all of the cards in this set, and I am astonished at how useful it's been at aiding me in my reading comprehension in my everyday life (I live in Japan). As soon as I learn a new card, I start to see that kanji all around me. It was always there, but now I notice and understand it.
  
  If you've found this product and have already decided that you are determined to learn these kanji, don't think twice about buying. You can do it, with the help of White Rabbit Press!
  
  My only complaint is that there are too many of these cards to learn! But that's the fault of the Japanese, not White Rabbit :-)
• Author: M. Henderson
  I am not usually a review writer, but I have to say something about these cards. I have seen every other popular series of cards. In fact, I've seen every set that advertises itself anywhere that I could find them. I graduated with a major in Japanese for Education K-12, and am currently living and working in Japan. Japanese is my personal hobby, and there is no interest that I spend more time on than on studying Japanese.
  
  And through all of that, I can only recommend White Rabbit Press for Kanji flashcards. No other card set is sufficient for study in my opinion. Why? For many reasons, but the #1 reason: they all use Romaji! Romaji is the use of English letters to represent Japanese characters. For example, Sushi is romaji because it doesn't use the real Japanese characters ( or ). This is unforgiveable, period. You absolutely cannot study Kanji cards with romaji on them. If you do, you are not a serious student of Japanese (or you only do so because you didn't know about these cards).
  
  Second, the other card sets are cheaply made, have few (irrelevant or infrequently used) examples, do not adequately show the stroke order (how to write it), and lack denotations for which character compounds will appear on the JLPT. White Rabbit Press has all of these and more.
  
  And another incredibly stupid thing is that some of the flashcard sets contain the character and the reading on the SAME SIDE! What the heck!? Did they even think about what a flashcard is before they made those lame excuses for study materials?
  
  Don't be fooled. Lots of study materials for Japanese are available, but the vast majority is pure garbage. Can you learn something from them? Sure. Are they good for serious study? Absolutely not. This goes for books, grammar guides, workbooks, tapes, etc. Anything that uses romaji beyond the first or second chapter is pure trash, and not even worthy to be recycled (I'm exaggerating that, of course). Anything that promises quick learning with little effort is a pure lie; it's a sales gimmick to trick you and get a quick buck.
  
  If you're serious, learn the Japanese Kana (katakana, hiragana). Learn them so well that you come to hate romaji. Then, get these Kanji cards and use them like crazy.
• Author: Marina Michaels
  I have purchased a number of different brands of kanji flash cards. None of the others come close to being as high in quality as these. The cards are incredibly well designed and useful. It is obvious that a lot of thought went into designing them. I know of no better product than these cards.
  
  Among the many other good things about these cards, I appreciate the fact that the stroke order information is large, clear, and easy to read. The kanji and stroke information in my textbook are very tiny and hard to read. I was getting kanji wrong on my tests until I purchased volume one of this set and could see how the kanji were actually supposed to be drawn.
  
  Here are some addtional good things to know about this set and its companion volume:
  
  1. Volume one contains all the kanji you need for the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) Levels 3 & 4 (i.e, the lowest levels of proficiency). That's 284 kanji cards. It has a guide and index for those 284 cards.
  
  2. Volume two of these cards contains all the kanji needed for the JPLT Level 2. That's 739 kanji cards. It includes a guide and index to all the cards in both volume one and volume two, which makes it very easy to pull out specific cards to study.
  
  If you are studying kanji, these cards make life a lot easier.
• Author: Flueckiger Patrick
  The Flashcards did exceed my expectations! I recommend this to all who want to learn the Japanese language!
  
  Many thanks!
• Author: William Stephens
  If you have ANY intention to study kanji, or even improve your vocabulary, these are THE cards to purchase! I have learned so much from these cards! A working knowledge of hiragana and katakana are really important for these cards. I don't see this as a negative, as romaji is a pretty useless way of studying the language. If you purchase these cards, buy them directly from [...]as they will get more profits from the purchase. I am ANXIOUSLY awaiting volume three of the kanji cards, so I may complete my studies someday! I wouldn't recommend any other tool for learning kanji.
• Author: V. Suba
  As with Volume 1 in this series of Kanji Flash cards, White Rabbit Press have done an excellent job. WRP flashcards are the most poplular cards in Japan and over the world. I am very satisfied and I shall purchase Volume 3 when it is completed.
  
  The content of these cards is an excellent learning tool. Randomized review is your tool in building long term memory. Flash cards will help you to manage your reviews and are very handy for carrying around to take a peek at during your moments of free time.
  
  Each Kanji is well presented in large print with clear stroke order. There are six common compounds included on each card, each marked to indicate if they are required on JLPT tests.
  
  Stroke counts and radical are displayed to make it easy to look up the Kanji in dictionaries such as "Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary".
  
  On the back of the cards you will find all the Japanese readings written in Kana, not Romaji. This is essential for anyone serious about learning to read Japanese, and one would assume that is the case if you are interested in learning the first 1000 Kanji and beyond.
  
  As with Volume 1 3rd edition, the Kanji is not displayed on the back of the card, so that you have the option to review from the reading to the Kanji. This is a very effective way to review and remember the writing of Kanji as it is demonstrated by Heisig's "Remembering The Kanji" system. If you build your memory from reading to the writing of Kanji, the rest will take care of itself. This is not true of the opposite case where seeing the Kanji may jog memory of the reading but it is very difficult to recall how to write the Kanji from memory.
  
  The flashcards are printed on bright glossy card with rounded corners. They feel like playing cards in your hands. (If you have ever used cards printed on non-glossy card or without rounded corners I am sure you are no stranger to irritated palms.) These WRP cards are comfortable to hold and shuffle.
• Author: J. Widness
  These cards are great for learning the kanji for the JLPT or for any general kanji studies. They're much better than any flashcards I could make myself and they helped me learn kanji better than any other method. I would recommend these to anyone learning Japanese.
• Author: Bo3b
  The White Rabbit Press flash cards are indeed the best. They are the only kanji cards on the market that provide complete preparation for the kanji portion of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT). There are easy to use and fit nicely into the storage box. Also, White Rabbit Press offers exceptional customer service. There was a problem with my order and they addressed the problem and had the cards shipped in less than 24 hours from initial time of order. I was most appreciative. I highly recommend!
• Author: Gentle Reader
  I love these cards. Without them, I don't think I would have passed the JLPT Level 2.
• Author: Lupu Bogdan
  These cards are wonderful. Not only as appearance but as construction. You can memorize the kanji trough
  writing. Not only one kanji can be learned but kanji from compounds also can be learned. It.s a easy mode for learning. i will not say they are the best (that depending what is the best). i will say that are the most well structured flash cards and with a workbook around you will memorize the hardest of kanji in no time.
• Author: Jonathan Owens
  Even though I am at a level now where I usually can work my way through most novels, the truth is that there are many kanji of that I only know the on-reading, others the kun-reading, and still many others the meaning only. I had procrastinated in going back and filling in my gaps because the prospect of making cards for so many characters all over again seemed like a nightmare. But these kanji cards contain almost everything you could think of. Readings, stroke order, example words, radicals- try fitting all of that onto your homemade cards...
  
  And when I found that I was missing a card, the company mailed a replacement card to me immediately. The customer service might be even better than this product is, and that's saying something...