Learning Japanese Hiragana and Katakana: A Workbook for Self-Study (Revised)

Name: Learning Japanese Hiragana and Katakana: A Workbook for Self-Study (Revised)
Brand: Tuttle Publishing
SKU: SP-9784805312278
Price: 22.60 USD
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Marc Notes:
'Learning Japanese Hiragana and Katakana' is a systematic and comprehensive workbook that can be used along with a Japanese language textbook or as a stand-alone resource to learn the Japanese alphabet (kana).

Biographical Note:
Kenneth G. Henshall has written many books on Japanese literature, history, culture, and language. A graduate of the universities of London (B.A. Hons), Sydney (Ph.D.), and Adelaide (Dip. Ed.), he is now Associate Professor of Japanese at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. He has also taught at the universities of Auckland, Western Australia, California, and Waikato. He is the author of A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters, and the lead author of the revised edition of A Guide to Reading and Writing Japanese.

Tetsuo Takagaki is a graduate of the universities of Wakayama (B.A.) and San Francisco State (M.A.) and was a senior lecturer in Japanese at the University of Auckland. He also taught at the universities of Hawaii and Maryland, and at Tsuda College in Tokyo. He is the author of a number of publications on Japanese language and linguistics.

Review Quotes:
"The definitive aid to swiftly reaching native-speaker competence in reading and writing kana." -- Dr. Masayoshi Ogino, University of Canterbury

Review Quotes:
" Learning Japanese Hiragana and Katakana gives you an in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at kana. It covers the 46 basic symbols for each system, and the 61 modifications and combinations." -- Eurolinguiste blog