# Japanese speaking dopers: how did you learn Kanbun?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 8, 2011, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-speaking-dopers-how-did-you-learn-kanbun/570613 "2011-02-08T03:13:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Omi\_no\_Kami](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a88e4f/32.png) [@Omi\_no\_Kami](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omi_no_Kami)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-speaking-dopers-how-did-you-learn-kanbun/570613/1 "2011-02-08T03:13:52Z")

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So my modern Japanese is fairly decent, and I still have most of my bungo (classical Japanese) from a year and a half of classes at uni. However, I never had to learn kanbun while in school, and now I’m finding that I have a little time, I’d really like to start working on it. I have An Introduction to Kanbun (Komai and Rohlich), and An Introduction to Kanbun (Sydney Crawcour). These seem like decent starting places, but where do I go from there? Any recommendations for English or Japanese-language resources would be appreciated. 🙂