First Steps To Mastering Japanese: Japanese Hiragana & Katagana for Beginners Learn Japanese for Beginner Students + Japanese Phrasebook

By Yokahama Japanese English Language & Teachers Club

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If you are just beginning to learn the Japanese language, knowing a few basic grammar rules will prove to be useful. 
However, Japanese is not difficult. The biggest obstacle is probably the writing system and this book will help you narrow it down. 
This book, written for the Japanese beginner student, explains the basics and how Hiragana, Katagana, Kanji, and Japanese grammar in general is used; it helps you to get an overview on how to start and proceed. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Yokahama Japanese English Language & Teachers Club
• Release date: Nov 12, 2019
• ISBN: 9788835331834

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How to proceed and first steps

An excellent method of learning Japanese fast is reading entertaining and cultural relevant Japanese short stories prepared for learners.

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Introduction and a short history of the language

Japanese language is different from European as well as American languages, so allow us to offer you a brief background and introduction of the Japanese language.

The earliest remaining Japanese texts date back to the eight century AD. Its origins depend on the Altaic language family .

The Japanese of this duration is referred to as Old Japanese. A distinct function of Old Japanese was that it had 8 vowels and did not differentiate between long and short vowels.

Since its onset, Japanese has actually been affected by several languages.. Perhaps the most substantial borrowing in Japanese has actually been done from Chinese. In the third or fourth century AD, most of Japan had adopted the Chinese writing.

Discover one of the most fascinating languages and its culture

Japanese is written in Hiragana, Katakana, and about 250 basic Kanji characters which correspond to the beginner and low intermediate levels. As said before, we have also included line-by-line English translation, which will accelerate the learning process quite a bit.

Modern Japanese culture, as well as the Japanese language, is a mixture of various foreign and traditional influences. There are three kinds of character types used in writing: Hiragana (a phonetic system); Katakana (a phonetic system used mostly for foreign words); and Kanji (unique symbols with their own meaning and adopted from the Chinese).

A word about the so-called Kanji characters. Japanese consists of three different character sets. Many students say, the apanese language is difficult. One of the reasons might be the Kanji characters, however, Kanji can also be written in Kana characters which by most standards are relatively easy to