Students use a step-by-step approach to develop skills with the writing system of traditional Japanese characters borrowed and adapted from the Chinese. Models of 500 kanji characters, written by award-winning Japanese calligraphers, are arranged according to their radical groups. Samples of kanji writing help students perfect their writing style, ...
Following on the phenomenal success of "Remembering the Kanji", the author has prepared a companion volume for learning the Hiragana and Katakana syllabaries of modern Japanese. In six short lessons of about twenty minutes, each of the two systems of "kana" writing are introduced in such a way that the absolute beginner can acquire fluency in ...
The large, open format of this workbook is designed to invite the student to pick up a pencil and start writing. Written Japanese comprises two phonetic syllabaries, hiragana and katakana, and a set of kanji characters which are based on Chinese ideographs. This workbook has been carefully designed to facilitate the quick and easy mastery of the ...
This beginner's workbook helps students learn both hiragana and katakana writing systems. After learning hiragana writing, students move on to katakana. Then they write sentences containing both hiragana and katakana.
A useful companion to Abbeville's "Chinese Calligraphy", this clear and concise handbook is the ultimate guide to the complexity and beauty of the Japanese writing systems, for writers and readers alike.
This workbook teaches writing and how to pronounce hiragana with the aid of animated characters. "Gambatte", meaning "hang in there", is an illustrated, interactive series of learning materials for mastering the Japanese language.
This companion volume to "Hiragana Gambatte!" is an interactive workbook that teaches katakana with manga-style art, and nearly 100 mini-articles on Japanese society and culture. "Gambatte", meaning "hang in there", is an interactive series of learning materials for mastering the Japanese language.
This volume teaches the reader to read and write katakana in a quick, effective way by combining them into words. The Power Japanese series presents a selection of guides to difficult or confusing aspects of the Japanese language. The student can find a quick reference to particles, a guide to the myriad levels of politeness, books of idioms, ...
This step-by-step guide to hiragana includes writing models by award-winning Japanese calligraphers, concise explanations, and numerous exercises to improve students' writing style, build vocabulary, improve pronunciation, and increase knowledge of Japanese language structures, counters, and punctuation.
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: National Aeronautic and Space Administration
Date Published: 1966
Description: Very Good. 4to-9¾"-12" Tall. Ex-library copy with library markings. Otherwise excellent condition. Prepared under Contract No. NAS 8-1555 by Southwest Research Institute for George C. Marshall Space Flight Center. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Department of Oriental Studies, Yale Universtiy
Date Published: 1943
Description: Good/No Jacket. Used Bookshelf wear. Stamped and penned with previous owners name on upper coner of front page and preface page. Small pen note on rear of last page. Some (hot chocolate) staining to last page. Minor yellow bleeding to outer-most edges on inner cover front and rear. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Taiseido
Date Published: 1951
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. CONTENTS: PART ONE: Japanese ''Kana'' or Alphabet; Pronounciation of Romanized Japanese; The Pronounciations of Numbers; PART TWO: Correct Way of Counting the Number of Things, Animals, etc; PART THREE: Common Vocabulary; PART FOUR: First Steps to Japanese: The Postposition Denoting the Cases of Noun and Pronoun; The Interrogative Adverb; Verbs & Auxiliaries; Postpositions & Conjugations; PART FIVE: Practical Uses of Some Principal Parts of ... read more
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Let's Learn Hiragana: First Book of Basic Japanese Writing
