japanese language

Illustrations and text teach the reader to read, write, and pronounce over a hundred words in Japanese.

With a comprehensive pronunciation and grammar section, reinforced with tips on protocol and culture, this phrasebook provides all the survival words and phrases required by the traveller in Japan.

A guide to the forty-eight characters of the Japanese alphabet that discusses the origins and development of Chinese and Japanese writing; includes pronunciation guidelines; and describes the sequence for writing the individual strokes.

As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.

The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm.

Chronicles the life and loyalty of Hachik?, the Akita dog who remained loyal to his owner years after his death.

A little girl falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a world of fantastic and amusing creatures. Presented in Japanese.

Illustrations and simple sentences teach children more than one thousand Japanese words and phrases.

Presents 1,000 common Japanese words, each accompanied by a small, labeled picture and the Japanese syllabic signs.

An introduction to the Japanese language that discusses where it is spoken, what alphabet it is written in, how to say key phrases, and how to pronounce the words used throughout the book.