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Synopsis
How to Improvise - a New Way of learning Japanese: Pictures for help in remembering Japanese sounds and letters.
How to read: numbers, romaji, hiragana, katakana, kanji. Four easy sentence patterns for saying anything.
How to write: hiragana, katakana, friendly letters. Ten differences between English and Japanese.
How to say the: time, names of rooms, colors, sports, etc. What to say: at meal times, when shopping, at celebrations, in greeting people, to find your way, to thank people, etc.
with indices, glossaries, answers and illustrations.
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From the Back Cover
An Effective Book for Learning Lasting Practical Japanese!
Pictures for help in remembering Japanese sounds and letters.
Four easy sentence patterns for saying anything.
Ten differences between English and Japanese.
How to read: numbers, romaji, hiragana, katakana, kanji
How to write: hiragana, katakana, friendly letters
How to say the: time, names of rooms, colors, sports, etc.
What to say: at meal time, at shopping, at celebration, etc.; to greet people, to find your way, to thank people, etc.
Included in this book are:
(1) two sets of syllabaries(hiragana and katakana) and about 100 kanji;
(2) 600 Japanese words to memorize and another 700 words in common use;
(3) glossary;
(4) some foreign words that the Japanese use;
(5) essential idiomatic expressions;
(6) the basics of the grammar;
(7) exercises for each lesson, 30 lessons.
with subject, word, and kanji indices, and over 350 illustrations.
About the Author
The author, Seiko Huntington, has been teaching Japanese at colleges for over 15 years. She was born in Niigata, Japan and lived there until she graduated a college with an engineering degree while teaching Japanese to Americans and Canadians. She came to the U. S. and earned Ph.D. in physical chemistry, and worked as a research scientist. She is an author of Japanese language books and of various magazine and newspaper articles about Japan and science.
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- PublisherSakura Press
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 093684504X
- ISBN 13 9780936845043
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages408
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