Japanese for All Occasions: Mastering Speech Styles from Casual to Honorific
Mastering Speech Styles from Casual to Honorific
$38.69
- Paperback
200 pages
- Release Date
1 July 2017
Summary
In Japanese, register—the way you change your words depending on who you are speaking to—plays a key role. The rules of register in Japanese are far more complicated than they are in English, but until now there hasn’t been a book that lays it all out in an accessible format.
Japanese for All Occasions is a much-needed introduction to this bewildering aspect of the language, aimed at intermediate students and above. Through 57 dialogues, veteran teacher Taeko Kamiya shows lea…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9784770031518 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 4770031513 |
| Author: | Taeko Kamiya |
| Publisher: | Kodansha America, Inc |
| Imprint: | Kodansha International Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 200 |
| Release Date: | 1 July 2017 |
| Weight: | 235g |
| Dimensions: | 189mm x 134mm |
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About The Author
Taeko Kamiya
Taeko Kamiya (1925-2005) was an internationally-known author, teacher, and philanthropist who received Masters degrees from the University of San Francisco in education and from Monterey Institute of International Studies in linguistics. She taught Japanese for twenty-five years at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, before turning to writing books about the Japanese language. Among her many publications are The Handbook of Japanese Verbs, The Handbook of Japanese Adjectives and Adverbs, and Japanese Sentence Patterns for Effective Communication.
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