An Introduction to Newspaper Japanese

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AN INTRODUCTION TO NEWSPAPER JAPANESE
This book is designed to help students read newspaper Japanese. Basic articles from newspapers published in 1979 and 1980 have been chosen, and arranged in order of difficulty with comprehensive explanations and exercises in structure and vocabulary also provided. This will enable students to acquire a basic knowledge of sentence structure, vocabulary, and certain aspects of Japanese life as well. In short, this is a guide book for developing a reading comprehension of modern Japanese through the study of newspaper articles.
The book consists of three parts. Part I is designed to train the students so that they will recognize basic kanji and kanji compounds and understand the basic structure of newspaper Japanese. Part II provides selections from newspaper articles together with vocabulary lists, translations, lists of kanji compounds, and exercises. Part III consists of reproductions of newspaper articles and accompanying vocabulary lists.... Tovább

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AN INTRODUCTION TO NEWSPAPER JAPANESE
This book is designed to help students read newspaper Japanese. Basic articles from newspapers published in 1979 and 1980 have been chosen, and arranged in order of difficulty with comprehensive explanations and exercises in structure and vocabulary also provided. This will enable students to acquire a basic knowledge of sentence structure, vocabulary, and certain aspects of Japanese life as well. In short, this is a guide book for developing a reading comprehension of modern Japanese through the study of newspaper articles.
The book consists of three parts. Part I is designed to train the students so that they will recognize basic kanji and kanji compounds and understand the basic structure of newspaper Japanese. Part II provides selections from newspaper articles together with vocabulary lists, translations, lists of kanji compounds, and exercises. Part III consists of reproductions of newspaper articles and accompanying vocabulary lists.
The students will need a basic knowledge of Japanese grammar and the ability to read hiragana and katakana but will not have to be able to read kanji before starting this book.
The total number of kanji appearing in the book is approximately 1,400. The seleaion of kanji and kanji compounds is based on Gendai Shinbun-no Kanji (Kanji in Contemporary Newspapers) published by Kokuritsu Kokugo Kenkyujo (National Language Research Institute). The newspaper articles are taken from the Mainichi, Nikkéi, Asahi, and Yomiuri Newspapers and reprinted with the permission of these newspaper companies. Vissza