Japanese for All Occasions: Mastering Speech Styles from Casual to Honorific - Softcover

Kamiya, Taeko

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ISBN 10: 4770031513 ISBN 13: 9784770031518

Verlag: Kodansha International, 2011

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In Japanese, register - the way you change your words according to who you are speaking with - plays a key role. This title offers an introduction to this bewildering aspect of the language. Through 57 dialogues, it shows learners how the Japanese change their way of speaking depending on the social setting or their relationship with the listener. In Japanese, register - the way you change your words according to who you are speaking with - plays a key role. The rules of register in Japanese are far more complicated than they are in English, but until

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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, from Kodansha International.

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• Verlag: Kodansha International
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 4770031513
• ISBN 13: 9784770031518
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 200