Japanese in a Flash Kit Volume 1: Learn Japanese Characters with 448 Kanji Flashcards Containing Words, Sentences and Expanded Japanese Vocabulary (Tuttle Flash Cards) Hardcover – Download: Adobe Reader, November 8, 2016

This would be great except for one major flaw - all the kanji characters have smaller katakana listed above them, on the *front* of the flashcard! If you are unfamiliar with Japanese writing, the katakana is the list of (about) 46 characters that you can memorize in a day or two, and which have phonetic values. The kanji number in the thousands, and unlike the katakana, you cannot tell how they are pronounced just by looking at them. The point of flashcards is to test yourself to see if you can remember (in part) how the kanji is pronounced. Having the pronunciation listed right on the front of the flash card defeats the purpose. I had to go through all 400+ cards with a sharpie and blot out the katakana in order to make the cards actually useful in memorization testing.Also, I don't know if it's just me or if others found this, but there were two duplicate cards in my set.Overall, I'm still buying volume 2, because I'm not aware of anything better.

In a flash is excellent in its simplicity. Highly mobile. Study anywhere you go. Includes helpful phrases that allow you to put words into context. Exellent product.

This product has been what I expected it to be and and it has been very useful for its purpose

This set is a must have to test yourself in addition to any other methods you may use.

I love the flash cards. They are great if you go out to eat once in awhile with a friend/family/wife/husband --- you can have fun waiting for your meal... as well learn your Japanese at the same time!

I fail to see the point of this selection. This set of flash cards is a curious mix of basic words, like pronouns (e.g. anata) and deiktika (e.g. koko), as well as more advanced vocabulary. It seems to be a hotchpotch of words written in kanji and hiragana. Some are very basic and accessible to beginners. E.g. Card 007 is the pronoun anata, which means 'you'. Others are at a more advanced level and beginners will probably find them of little use. E.g. Card 001 is the expression aikawarazu (written in a combination of kanji and hiragana), which apparently means 'as usual'.A good feature of these cards is that the kanji have furigana (small hiragana characters written above kanji) to show you how to pronounce them. The cards are well-printed on good quality card paper, as I would expect from Tuttle.I cannot recommend this product. There are other, better sets of flash cards available for Japanese, including some from Tuttle.