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Learn
to Speak, Read & Write Japanese with
Linguaphone Japanese
Language
Courses
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Retail
Price $499
Our
Price $449
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Linguaphone
Japanese Complete 1 - 2 - 3 -
Beginner
to Proficient
contains:
::
6
CDs
::
Handbook
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Textbook
::
Explanatory
Notes
:: Study
Guide
A
complete introduction to your new language for beginners.
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Speak, read and write your chosen language to between GCSE and
A-level standard
:: Master over 1,500 words of practical, everyday vocabulary
:: Perfect your accent by listening to native speakers
:: Exercises and activities to structure and monitor your progress
:: Illustrated transcripts to help you follow the audio dialogue
:: Complete explanations of what you hear
:: Vocabulary lists and grammatical points
:: Learn fast with structured tuition and clear, easy-to-follow
guidance
The Complete 1-2-3 course will give you a complete introduction
to your chosen language. By listening to high quality cassettes
of native speakers and using the supplied course books, you
will quickly gain confidence in reading, writing and speaking
in a wide variety of situations. This course uses Linguaphone’s
‘listen, understand, speak’ method that has already
helped thousands of people learn a new language.
Designed
to take you from complete beginner through to between GCSE and
A level standard.
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The
JAPANESE Language:
Japanese
is a language of uncertain origin. Japanese is spoken by more than
125 million people, most of whom live in Japan. There are also many
speakers of Japanese in the Ryukyu Islands, Korea, Taiwan, parts
of the United States, and Brazil. Japanese appears to be unrelated
to any other language; however, some scholars see a kinship with
the Korean tongue because the grammars of the two are very similar.
Japanese exhibits a degree of agglutination. In an agglutinative
language, different linguistic elements, each of which exists separately
and has a fixed meaning, are often joined to form one word. Japanese
lacks tones, but has a musical accent and usually stresses all syllables
equally. In the 3rd and 4th cent. AD, the Japanese borrowed the
Chinese writing system of ideographic characters. Since Chinese
is not inflected and since Chinese writing is ideographic rather
than phonetic, the Chinese characters do not completely fill the
needs of the inflected Japanese language in the sphere of writing.
In the 8th cent. AD, two phonetic syllabaries, or kana, were
therefore devised for the recording of the Japanese language. They
are used along with the ideographic characters (or kanji
characters) to indicate the syllables that form suffixes and particles.
The direction of writing is usually from top to bottom in vertical
columns and from right to left. The Roman alphabet has also been
used increasingly to transcribe Japanese. The large number of speakers
and the high level of cultural, economic, and political development
of the Japanese people make Japanese one of the leading languages
of the world. |
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