By James Robert Shaw (The Wind up Geek)
Japanese parents can now take a different approach to motivating their children to learn kanji, by talking about poop. The fascination with excrement comes in a series of books that were designed to make learning kanji more fun for Japanese school children. Six books have been released and according to publishing house Bunkyosha (文響社), it took two years to produce from planning to selling. At the time of this article, the books were in the top six spots on Amazon Japan’s Japanese Language Learning Chart.
The series follows the standard teaching method and covers more than the 1,000 characters studied at the Japanese elementary level. Continue reading “Japanese Children Motivated by Poop to Learn Kanji”