Kategoria BISAC: Foreign Language Study >> Japanese

All About Particles covers more than 70 particles those that are used regularly as well as those used less frequently in more than 200 uses. The book can be approached as a guiding textbook and studied from beginning to end. It is as a reference book, however, that All About Particles shines. It is light and easy to carry, slim enough to...

Japanese for Young People is a three-level series, designed primarily for middle school and high school curricula (with an optional starter level for elementary students) encouraging systematic Japanese-language acquisition through an enjoyable but structured learning process. With an emphasis on coordination of structure and verbal communication skills, this...

The volume on Semantics and Pragmatics presents a collection of studies on linguistic meaning in Japanese, either as conventionally encoded in linguistic form (the field of semantics) or as generated by the interaction of form
with context (the field of pragmatics), representing a range of ideas and approaches that are currently most influentialin these fields. The studies are organized around a model that has long currency in traditional Japanese grammar, whereby the linguistic clause consists of a multiply nested structure centered in a propositional core of objective meaning around...

Read, Write and Remember Kanji.

The puzzles in this book focus on the 80 kanji that are taught in the first year of school in Japan.

These are the most essential, basic kanji and include the characters needed to write numbers, days of the week and months of the year.

In addition to the puzzles and their solutions, the book contains clearly set out examples for each of the kanji, with on and kun readings for each character. There is also a detailed word list which gives examples of 160 commonly used words, with readings in hiragana and translations in English.

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Read, Write and Remember Kanji.

The puzzles in this book focus on the 160 kanji that are taught in the second year of compulsory education in Japan.

These are among the most essential, basic kanji and include the characters used for the seasons of the year, weather conditions, family members and a few everyday activities.

In addition to the 72 puzzles and their solutions, the book contains clearly set out examples for each of the kanji, with on and kun readings for each character. There are also a detailed word lists which give examples of at least 320 commonly used words, with...

What is furigana and why is it so important?
Furigana refers to the small kana that are printed above or alongside kanji to show the pronunciation of the Chinese character. With furigana superscripts, the beginner who is familiar with hiragana and...

Conventional grammars tell us when we can use given grammatical patterns. However, they almost invariably fail to tell us when we cannot use them. Many of the chapters of this book are concerned with the latter problem. They attempt to explain why some sentences that should be grammatical according to the explanations given in conventional grammars are in fact ungrammatical. In this sense, the book can be called a grammar of ungrammatical sentences.... It deals only with those problems of Japanese -- and only a handful of them -- that are either completely ignored or erroneously...