Hi there.
I’ve been studying kanji for more than 7 years and I’ve come up with a book to teach kanji through real etymologies, which I think is pretty relevant to this board.
In order to publish the book I’ve launched a Kickstarter campaign and we are on track but still there is a long way left. Many people have shown very good feedback but the project doesn’t get much exposure outside the Kickstarter community, so I’m sharing it with people that may have interest in such a book.
Feel free to check the project page here and see if you like the book and think it’s for you!
In case you wonder, I’ll sum up what’s different compared to other kanji learning books out there:
The foundation of the book is the deep etymological research I’ve made. The basic (indivisible) compounds used in the Chinese character formation are actually pictograms, and we have access now to those pictograms in their bronze script and oracle-bone script forms. I include this glyph besides each component in order to show the real (original) form and how they suggest a meaning and work in relation to other characters. This way you can depict quite clearly a quite comprehensive system of character formation: you start to naturally learn characters and see the logic behind it. The compound characters are deductible from the components you’ve learn before (although in each new entry the character is entirely explained through its components one more time). You can see an example of this in the Kickstarter page itself.
I’m also up to any suggestion!