Beginners Japanese - Study The Kana Hiragana & Katakana Combining the popular and easy to use separate Study Hiragana and Study Katakana books and additional material. Progress your Japanese study from zero to learn both the basic Japanese language alphabets in one book. Beginners Japanese The Kana Get off to a great start in your Japanese language study with lessons, writing practice and sample words for both the basic vocabularies. This book takes you through the introduction of the first basic characters and adds further detail and new characters as it progresses, letting you study all of the alphabet characters and variations at your own pace. Practice writing the characters Each character has its own space for writing practice to get you handwriting off to a start. See Real-World Examples Photos and explanations of printed and hand written language from around Japan are used to show how the words and characters look in real life. Read and Write sample words. Use the sets of sample words to gain further handwriting and reading practice as well as starting off you vocabulary. Each word is again given its own space for writing practice. The essential resource for anyone serious about learning Japanese, including being able to read and write. First Hiragana The first alphabet of Japanese. Hiragana is used to punctuate the language as well as forming all the words of Japanese origin. Second Katakana Katakana is used to create foreign words. The characters look different to Hiragana but the sounds are the same as the corresponding characters. Each foreign words required is translated into Katakana before entering common usage. The phonetic translation usually gets close to sounding like the English version, but never quite the same...
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