Kodansha's Katakana Workbook: A Step-by-Step Approach to Basic Japanese Writing

This book, a companion to Kodansha's Hiragana Workbook, teaches the basics of katakana, the script for writing loanwords borrowed from English and other languages. This volume introduces katakana characters based on their frequency of use rather than in the traditional gojūon order.

As in the Hiragana Workbook, one page each is devoted to the 46 basic characters, which are then used to form actual, everyday words, enabling the student to build his or her vocabulary from the very beginning. T...