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I’ve been studying Japanese for the past few months. I’m working my way through James Heisig’s excellent book Remembering the Kanji Volume 1 in order to learn the meaning and writing of about 2,000 kanji (Chinese characters used to write Japanese). I’m almost halfway through the book now. My next step will be to learn to read the characters in Japanese. Rather than learning the pronounciation of individual characters, I plan to learn the kanji in the context of Japanese sentences, a method which teaches not just reading, but also vocabulary, grammar, and usage all at the same time.

That’s where the topic of this post comes in. leosmith from the Reviewing the Kanji forum, has worked his way through the textbook Japanese for Everyone, and along the way has put together an Excel spreadsheet with example sentences based on the textbook. The sentences can easily be added to a spaced repetition system such as Twinkle or Mnemosyne for effective review. Leo asked me to post the spreadsheet here so that other students of Japanese, particularly those using Japanese for Everyone, can benefit. Thanks, Leo!