Meet Japanese: Overview of the general outline and characteristics of Japanese

Author: Wang Bing
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Publish Date: 2005-10-01
Features: The book "Meet Japanese" is about getting to know Japanese, understanding Japanese, and mastering Japanese. It is structured according to the major components of language, including an overview, phonetics, writing systems, notation, vocabulary, grammar, and pragmatics. It embodies the fruits of years of research by linguists from around the world, even the lifelong dedication of many, showcasing the fundamental framework of the Japanese language and incorporating the questions, difficulties, and many other inquiries that learners often have. It clarifies the general approach Chinese learners use to understand Japanese. The book primarily uses the learners' native language—Chinese—as well as the foreign language they are familiar with—English—as references, highlighting the characteristics of Japanese through simple comparisons. The selection of example sentences is designed to be practical and colloquial. The use of intuitive tables throughout helps learners grasp the content at a glance. The rules of language use are integrated into relevant questions to facilitate learners' reference. The book "Meet Japanese" is about getting to know Japanese, understanding Japanese, and mastering Japanese. It is structured according to the major components of language, including an overview, phonetics, writing systems, notation, vocabulary, grammar, and pragmatics. It embodies the fruits of years of research by linguists from around the world, even the lifelong dedication of many, showcasing the fundamental framework of the Japanese language and incorporating the questions, difficulties, and many other inquiries that learners often have. It clarifies the general approach Chinese learners use to understand Japanese. The book primarily uses the learners' native language—Chinese—as well as the foreign language they are familiar with—English—as references, highlighting the characteristics of Japanese through simple comparisons: the selection of example sentences is designed to be practical and colloquial; the use of intuitive tables throughout helps learners grasp the content at a glance; the rules of language use are integrated into relevant questions to facilitate learners' reference.