A Guide to Reading and Writing Japanese: Fourth Edition: Fourth Edition, JLPT All Levels (2,136 Japanese Kanji Characters) - Softcover

Florence Sakade; Janet Ikeda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 4805311738 ISBN 13: 9784805311738

Publisher: Tuttle Shokai Inc, 2013

Synopsis

"Students have been reading and writing Japanese for centuries, and they build their knowledge most successfully when they rely on a trusted resource. Today's most trusted and readily available resource is A Guide to Reading and Writing Japanese. This classic, best-selling learning and reference work, trusted by beginning and intermediate students learning Japanese since 1959, is now being offered as a fourth edition and is thoroughly revised and up-to-date. Having a knowledge of the full set of General Use characters, which this guide includes, will allow reading of any Japanese newspaper with ease and confidence. Key features on this revised edition include: the most recent changes prescribed by the Japanese Ministry of Education Covering all the 2,136 characters in the 'General Use', / Joyo Kanji set Detailing coverage of the 1,009 'Essential' Japanese characters arranged by grade for children in the first six years of grade school The Kanji characters based more on their frequency in everyday language than the complexity of their composition."

About this title

About the Author

Florence Sakade was an renowned editor and author of numerous books about Japan's language and culture, including the classic Origami: Japanese Paper Folding and Japanese Children's Favorite Stories.

Janet ikeda is Associate Professor of Japanese at Washington and Lee University in Virginia. She served as president of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, and is currently a Director of the AATJ. ikeda is currently on the Japanese American Leadership Delegation (JALD).

From the Back Cover

This book is designed first of all to make the study of written Japanese a much less formidable task for the foreign student than it has traditionally been. Its second major purpose is to enable the student to achieve fluency in reading and writing the language in its everyday style. Essentially, the book reflects the language simplification movement now under way in Japan.

Edition details

• Publisher: Tuttle Shokai Inc
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 4805311738
• ISBN 13: 9784805311738
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 352