The First Course In The Study Of The Japanese Language Classic Reprint

Excerpt from The First Course in the Study of the Japanese Language Professor of General Linguistics and Japanese Phonetics at the Tokyo University of Science and Literature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Hardcover reprint of the original 1900 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9". No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Hoshina, Koichi. The First Course In The Study Of The Japanese Language. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Hoshina, Koichi. The First Course In The Study Of The Japanese Language, . New York, N. Y., Modernophone, Inc, 1900. Subject: Japanese language, Textbooks for foreign speakers English

A First Course in Japanese (2007 Edition) has been written specifical ly for students who are beginning their study of Japanese in the last tw o years of high school. The textbook is based on the new syllabus publis hed in 2006 and covers two years of study. It has three resources : the Course Book is based around six main topics. Each top ic has a number of units. Each unit begins with sentence structures foll owed by explanations of the structures. This is then followed by various texts, a grammar summary, Kanji, activities, cultural notes, vocabulary and remember of pictorial charts. the Workbook contains gramma tical exercises, listening, comprehension, composition and Kanji writing exercises. the CDs: the CD that comes with the Course Book cov ers all the sentence structures and dialogues. The Workbook CD covers al l the listening exercises, text and questions.

Excerpt from An Introductory Course in Japanese With the hope that this manual, however imperfectly its aim has been followed, may be helpful to those who shall accept the course Of study it opens, I submit it to the indulgen't judgment of its students, and of the friends Of the Japanese language. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Spoken Language of Japan: A Course of Exercises in Familiar Conversation In the following table, the Kana signs are given, not in the customary Japanese course of succession, but in conjunction with English equivalents of the various syllables, arranged in an order that is judged convenient for reference by foreign students. It will be observed that several of the signs are more than once repeated, with the addition of the side marks and O, which denote certain changes of utterance. The effect of 'v is to harden the original consonant sound while 0, used only for syllables that begin with an aspirate or dento-labial, indicates a change to the sound of the English labial p. By these means, lea is changed to ya; te to de; hi to bi or pi fu to bu. Or pa etc. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from An Historical Grammar of Japanese The chief object of this work is to provide material for study of the affiliations of the Japanese language, and, in so far as philological evidence is of value, for inquiry into the origins of the Japanese race but it has been so planned as to be, I hope, Of interest to students of general linguistic theory. I trust also that advanced students of Japanese, especially those who wish to read early and medieval texts, will find it useful as a work Of reference and even those who are concerned only with the modern spoken and written languages will, I believe, find many of their difficulties removed by gaining some knowledge of the development of grammatical forms and the growth of common idioms. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from Handbook of English-Japanese Etymology The fact is that the several foundation forms serve various purposes. One who wishes to name them may therefore take his choice. He may select some one marked feature and find in that the name, with however the certainty that it will prove more or less misleading. The only alternative is to content one's self with the simple numerical designations first, second, third, and fourth. To the writer the latter seems the better course: and he would have followed it, but for the desire to keep company with others. He has substituted stem for root because it is somewhat less misleading, and also because it has been adopted by Mr. Aston in the fourth edition of his Gram mar of the Japanese Spoken Language. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.