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Hi -
  I am struggling terribly trying to learn the first 881 Kanji
characters.  These, I am told, would be roughly the 6th grade
reader in a Japanese school.

  My greatest difficulty is that I have no reading material that
is written at this level that would allow me to practice reading.
The only things I have are newspapers, which use considerably more
characters, most of which are in my dictionary, and literature/poetry
which uses MANY more characters, many of which are NOT in my dictionary.

  In America we grew up with readers for first and second grade children
called the "Dick and Jane" books, which had such charming stories as
"See Spot.  See Spot run.  Look, Jane.  Look at Spot.  Look at Spot run."
The point being that the handful of words that the child knows are used
in a "real" way by reading stories that use them.  Gradually new words
were added, and each story used most of the new words, as well as reinforcing
the first words.

  I don't necessarily want See Spot Run, but if anyone could recommend
some very basic reading material, or a text book that teaches Kanji
in such a fashion, I would be grateful.  My work schedule does not
allow me to attend classes at this time, although I am still hoping
to do so in the not so distant future.

Thanks very much.


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