Social Networking Approach to Japanese Language Teaching
by Yasu-Hiko Tohsaku, Fumiko Nazikian, and Jisuk Park
Social Networking Approach to Japanese Language Teaching is a timely guide for Japanese language teachers and anyone interested in language pedagogy. The book outlines an innovative approach to language instruction which goes beyond the communicative approach and encourages a global view of language education and curriculum development through the use of social networking. It showcases diverse examples of how social networking can be harnessed and incorporated into everyday language classes to...
Kanji Notebook - Japanese Writing Practice
by Sty Japanese Writing Practice Notebooks
This phrasebook is being published now as we launch our new and long-awaited Japan guide (coming December 1998). It includes travel notes and is especially useful in helping the traveler with Japanese etiquette.
The easy way to learn the Japanese writing system! In this beginner's workbook, students of Japanese will learn to read and write the Hiragana and Katakana alphabets, as well as 50 basic Kanji characters. A step-by-step approach moves from tracing letters to reading and writing complete words quickly and effectively. In this comprehensive guide, language learners will find:The 92 Hiragana and Katakana letters50 Kanji charactersIllustrations to help you remember each letter and its associated s...
Concise, accessible and easy to understand, this phrase book presents over 2000 words and phrases for everyday holiday situations. Modern every-day phrases cover all the subjects that you are likely to encounter, from ordering your evening meal or buying stamps, to dealing with lost traveller's cheques or a broken down car. Phonetic pronunciations make sure you're understood and the mini dictionary of 2000 words help you to compose your own phrases if needed. Helpful cultural guidance is given,...
Guide de la Conversation Japonaise (2e Ed)(Ed.1867) (Langues)
by de Rosny L
Pocket Japanese
4th Revised Edition of JAPANESE FOR BUSY PEOPLE, the most popular Japanese language textbook series in the world. Since it was first published in 1984, the focus of the Japanese for Busy People series has always been to teach Japanese for effective communication. As suggested in the title, this is a concise course for busy students who want to learn natural, spoken Japanese as efficiently as possible in a limited amount of time. The new Japanese for Busy People: Revised 4th Edition i...
While in the Land of the Rising Sun have some fun trying to speak a bit of Japanese with this easy-to-access A-Z list of words and phrases. There's also travel information on a range of topics: toilets, tipping, capsule hotels, love hotels...; language notes to show you how not to put your foot in it; some basic Japanese characters; a guide to food; and, maps.
The Emergence of the Modern Sino-Japanese Lexicon (East Asian Comparative Literature and Culture, #7)
It has long been known that the modern Chinese language inherited numerous terms from Japanese and that Japanese coined many of those terms in the last decades of the 19th century. These seven essays address the actual processes by which a discreet number of terms came into being, how they outdistanced competitors, and the persons and texts involved in the process. Rather than relying on received tropes of translation heritage, these essays delve much deeper into the particularities of their cas...
Noh Plays of Japan (Tuttle Classics of Japanese Literature)
by Arthur Waley
Noh plays live on as a magnificent artistic heritage handed down from the high culture of medieval Japan. Among the major types of Japanese drama, the No, which is often called the classical theatre of Japan, has had perhaps the greatest attraction for the West. Introduced to Europe and America through the translations of Arthur Waley and Ezra Pound, it found an ardent admirer in William Butler Yeats, who described it as a form of drama 'distinguished, indirect, and symbolic' and created plays i...
Whether full-time students, business people, or casual readers, all have felt the need for a compact, up-to-date, practical kanji dictionary. Something that would fit into a shoulder bag or briefcase, could be taken to class, or would sit unobtrusively on a desktop. Kodansha's Essential Kanji Dictionary is precisely that dictionary, designed specifically to meet the needs of the modern man and woman. It includes all of the 1,945 Joyo Kanji, the core kanji recommended by the Japanese Minist...
Comprehensive ESL Japanese III includes 30 additional lessons (16 hrs.), plus Readings, which build upon the language skills acquired in Levels I, II. Increased spoken and reading language ability.
Japanese Writing Practice Book (Japanese Writing Notebooks, #8)
by Japanese Writing Paper Company