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An Introduction to the Sounds and Rhythms of Japanese

Association for Japanese-Language Teaching

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WADAIKO An Introduction to the Sounds and Rhythms of JapaneseAssociation for Japanese-Language Teaching

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FEELTHE LIVING BEAT AND TIMBRE OF THE JAPANESE LANGUAGE

• This is the first book ever to introduce students to Japanese through its sounds and rhythms• It is NOT about teaching sentences and syn-tax: it IS about acclimatising the learner to the natural music of the language• Recent research shows a major reason for young people wanting to learn Japanese is inter-est in pop-culture, manga and anime - this is the perfect starting point• Songs, poems, tongue twisters and other games expose students to Japanese culture and the beauty of the Japanese language• A free CD is an essential part of this process, allowing students to sing along, or repeat exer-cises whenever they wish• Text conforms with current requirements in being in Japanese orthography, with romanised Japanese and English in the appendices and the vocabulary lists at the bottom of each page.

An engaging and innovative approach to learn-ing Japanese through its sounds and rhythms: from the authors of the world’s biggest-selling language course JAPANESE FOR BUSY PEOPLE, this is an amazing book that will support any learning method or textbook series.

Wadaiko (lit. ‘Japanese drum’) immerses students in the sounds and rhythms of the Japanese lan-guage through songs, poetry, tongue twisters and other word games. The purpose is to get learners to “feel” Japanese, to absorb it with their ears, without being expected to understand it all. The book is divided into two parts. Part 1 is made up of 5 lessons, and Part 2 of four “seasons”. Col-our illustrations and photographs appear on al-most every page. Romanised Japanese is used as an aid for those who haven’t learned the writing system yet, and English translations of the songs and poems are also shown, but otherwise the text is in Japanese to conform with modern teaching methodology. There are exercises and questions, quizzes, and other interactive features. The free CD contains audio of Japanese folk songs that students can sing along with. Wadaiko has been designed to work alongside any teaching meth-odology as a resource to aid understanding and help perfect pronunciation. Ideal for beginners, it can be picked up at any stage of learning.The Association for Japanese-Language Teaching (AJALT) was recognised as a nonprofi t organisation by the Ministry of Education in 1977. It was established to meet the practical needs of people who are not necessarily specialists on Japan but who wish to communicate effectively in Japanese. In 1992 AJALT was awarded the Japan Foundation Special Prize. In 2010 it became a public interest incorporated association.AJALT maintains a website at www.ajalt.org

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£16.99 PB190 x 128 mm352 pages, 1,005 ‘kun’ kanji700 usage articles; 2 indexes

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Organised as a dictionary in Japanese kana order, this is the fi rst-ever guide to ‘kun-yomi’ homophones: native Japanese words that sound the same yet have dif-ferent meanings and are therefore written using different kanji characters.

Another invaluable language tool from the compiler of such classics as The Kanji Dictionary and The Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, among others..

KANJI USAGE GUIDE An A to Z of Kun HomophonesEditor-in-Chief: Jack Halpern

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One of the many diffi culties that learners of Japanese come up against is that so many words sound exactly the same, but mean something different. These homophones weren't bor-rowed from Chinese many centuries ago, but are native Japa-nese words ("kun" words); furthermore, they may have more than 2 meanings, depending upon the Chinese character (or kanji) used to represent the sound. For example, hanasu can mean 'speak' 話 or 'release' 放 or 'separate' 離 ...

This is the fi rst book to address this issue head-on, and of-fer the learner an easy-to-follow guide to what the different meanings for each sound are, as well as how these separate meanings are written in kanji. It is organised in the natural Jap-anese dictionary order a-ka-sa-ta-na-ha-ma-ya-ra-wa, and con-forms to the preference for Japanese orthography in contem-porary teaching methodology, with all kanji also phonetically rendered. Furthermore, the entries are all numbered for ease of cross-reference, and their SKIP reference and numbering from Halpern's best-selling Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary and Kodansha Kanji Dicitonary [both p.XX] are included to enable further research.

Thousands of compounds and examples illustrate the 1,005 in-dividual kanji entries: the kun- homophones within the stand-ard joyo kanji. Two indexes for quick look-up complete a book that is an essential reference and learning tool for mastering written Japanese.

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