30 Day Mastery Confident Keigo

Author : Olly Richards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798503176254

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30-Day Mastery: Confident Keigo by Olly Richards Pdf

***FOR HIGH-BEGINNER TO LOW-INTERMEDIATE LEARNERS*** Master Japanese honorifics in the next 30 days, with this innovative, story-based immersion method. Just read one chapter per day, complete the exercises, and watch as your use of honorifics improves your confidence in Japanese! "I love Olly's work - and you will too!" - Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller A Mind for Numbers Keigo is what separates the average Japanese learner from culturally competent speakers, and using it earns you respect from Japanese natives. However, native speakers don't learn honorifics through rules and memorisation, and neither should you. This book helps you master the most subtle rules of keigo naturally so you can express yourself confidently in Japanese like the polite and respectful person you are! With 30-Day Mastery: Confident Keigo you'll learn through example and context, just like native speakers do! The magic of learning through story is that your main focus is actually not on memorising complex rules... you concentrate on understanding the fundamentals and on enjoying the story! As you're reading the story, you will find that different types of honorifics, and the situations in which they are used, will begin to make more logical sense, thus making your learning more organic. It doesn't happen right away - in fact it may take a couple of weeks for you to feel the real effects. But by the end of this book, you'll have a native-like command of Keigo that will amaze you and your friends! In this story, you will follow Yuri who, like most new graduates, is excited to start her working career. However, upon joining a technology company in Tokyo, she quickly starts to learn some harsh truths of hectic corporate life in Japan. Will she have what it takes to succeed? Take a peek behind the curtain into daily working life in a typical modern Japanese company and follow her progress. Not yet convinced? Here are all the features you will find in this book: Short chapters of 300 words each - just read one chapter a day for 30 days! A text designed specifically for students at N4/N5 level A detailed language overview so you can review and quickly understand the fundamentals of Keigo as you immerse yourself in the story Short daily practice exercises to practice your use of honorifics as you go Bilingual word lists to quickly look up new vocabulary Hiragana superscript to help you with difficult Kanji SCROLL UP AND GRAB YOUR COPY! "[Olly's] techniques have made a world of difference. I was able to learn more in 9 months with his techniques than I did in the 6+ years in school" - Courtney Baird, successful language learner

Author : Olly Richards
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798715122162

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30-Day Mastery: Amazing Adjectives and Adverbs by Olly Richards Pdf

***FOR HIGH-BEGINNER TO LOW-INTERMEDIATE LEARNERS*** Master Japanese adjectives and adverbs in the next 30 days, with this innovative, story-based immersion method. Just read one chapter per day, complete the exercises and watch as your speech becomes more colourful, descriptive and fluent! "I love Olly's work - and you will too!" - Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller A Mind for Numbers Most Japanese students try to learn Japanese grammar and vocabulary through rules and rote memorisation. This doesn't work, and is extremely stressful for you as a learner. Why? Because there are lots so many rules to learn and vocabulary to remember that it's impossible to hold them all in your head at the same time while you're speaking. It's also not a natural approach ... native speakers don't learn the language with rules and memory tricks, after all! With 30-Day Mastery: Amazing Adjectives & Adverbs you'll learn through example and context, just like native speakers do! The magic of learning through story is that your main focus is actually not on memorising anything... you concentrate on understanding and enjoying the story! As you're reading, you will find that the rules surrounding Japanese adjectives and adverbs, as well as their meaning, will begin to lodge themselves subconsciously in your brain. It doesn't happen right away - in fact it may take a couple of weeks for you to feel the real effects. But by the end of this book, you'll have a native-like command of Japanese descriptors that will amaze you and your friends! In this story, you will read about Ai, a 19-year-old student at a prestigious cooking school in Tokyo. She has always dreamt of becoming a chef, however, the competition at the school is hard and, coming up to their graduation day, Ai and her close friends are getting ready for the school's annual competition. Together, they must come up with dishes that are both traditionally Japanese and original if they want to win the competition and be scouted to work in prestigious restaurants across the country. Not yet convinced? Here are all the features you will find in this book: Short chapters of 300 words each - just read one chapter a day for 30 days! A text designed specifically for students at N4/N5 level A detailed language overview so you can review and quickly understand the uses of all adjectives and adverbs as you immerse yourself in the story Short daily practice exercises to practice as you go Bilingual word lists to quickly look up new vocabulary Hiragana superscript to help you with difficult Kanji SCROLL UP AND GRAB YOUR COPY!

Author : Bev Aisbett
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781460709092

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30 Days 30 Ways to Overcome Anxiety by Bev Aisbett Pdf

From the bestselling anxiety expert, Bev Aisbett, comes a proven and practical workbook to help people manage their anxiety, with simple daily strategies for work and for home. A clear, practical day-by-day workbook, written by experienced counsellor and bestselling author of the classic national bestseller about anxiety, Living with IT, Bev Aisbett, to help people control their anxiety. Based on many of the exercises Bev has been teaching and writing about for the past twenty years, the book provides clear, simple daily building blocks to help people manage their anxiety and assist in recovery. Designed to be carried in handbags or backpacks as a daily companion, this is a highly approachable, concise, practical, simple and above all proven method of overcoming anxiety. Bev Aisbett is Australia’s leading author in books around managing anxiety. In 1993, after recovering from severe anxiety and depression herself, Bev turned to her artistic talents to create the first of her ground-breaking illustrated self-help books Living with IT- A Survivor's Guide to Panic Attacks, which rapidly became a national bestseller, with over 200,000 copies sold. In 2013, HarperCollins published the fully revised and updated 20th anniversary edition of this classic book.

Author : Shigeko Okamoto,Janet S. Shibamoto-Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-04
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781107072268

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The Social Life of the Japanese Language by Shigeko Okamoto,Janet S. Shibamoto-Smith Pdf

This book focuses on the historical construction of language norms and its relationship to actual language use in contemporary Japan.

Author : Bev Aisbett
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781460711859

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30 Days 30 Ways To Overcome Depression by Bev Aisbett Pdf

From bestselling author Bev Aisbett comes a proven, practical and simple workbook to help people manage their depression, with a month's worth of daily strategies and exercises for work and for home. When you're suffering from depression, sometimes it's as much as you can do to get out of bed, let alone read a book. But this just isn't any other book. This is a practical day-by-day workbook, with clear, simple daily building blocks and exercises designed to help pull you out of the inertia of depression. It's a highly approachable, concise and above all practical way to help manage depression. Featuring all-new material from experienced counsellor and bestselling author of the self-help classics Living with IT and Taming the Black Dog, Bev Aisbett has based this book on many of the exercises she has been teaching and writing about for the past twenty years to help people manage their depression.

Author : Lingo Mastery
Publisher : Easy Japanese Stories
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1951949463

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Japanese Short Stories for Beginners by Lingo Mastery Pdf

No language is easy to learn without reading - even if you know all of the rules and have watched the videos - you'll still have trouble. Diving into interesting material (such as stories) can be the difference between mastering a language and never leaving the basic level.For this reason, we have created another Japanese Short Stories for Beginners title to ensure you can acquire even more learning in this wonderful language that has opened up so many doors.Gain vocabulary that will help you better enjoy your shows and video games, meet interesting people and even land you the Japanese job of your dreams with our twenty easy-to-read and entertaining new stories!How Japanese Short Stories for Beginners works:?The book consists of twenty chapters: each with a funny, interesting and/or thought-provoking story based on real-life situations, allowing you to learn a lot about the culture.?Having trouble understanding Japanese characters at first glance? No problem - we provide you with an alternative chapter layout that contains the English translation below each paragraph, allowing you to fully grasp what you're reading!?The summaries follow each story - a synopsis in Japanese and in English of what you just read, both to review the lesson and for you to see if you understood what the tale was about. Use them if you're having trouble.?At the end of those summaries, you'll be provided with lists of the most relevant vocabulary involved in the lesson, as well as slang and sayings that you may not have understood at first glance! Don't get lost trying to understand or pronounce it all, either, as all of the vocabulary words are Romanized for your ease of learning and pronunciation!?Finally, you'll be provided with a set of tricky questions in Japanese, allowing you the chance to prove that you learned something in the story. Whether it's true or false, or if you're doing the single-answer questions, don't worry if you don't know how to solve them - we will provide the answers immediately after, but no cheating!

Author : Akira Miura
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781462910106

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Essential Japanese Vocabulary by Akira Miura Pdf

This is a clear, simple and compact guide to colloquial, everyday Japanese. Acquire basic proficiency in spoken Japanese. A streamlined, efficient approach. Perfect for self–learners or classroom use. Includes kanji and kana. Essential Japanese Vocabulary teaches all the Japanese grammar you need to speak and understand simple spoken Japanese. Covering only what is essential, it provides and efficient way for learners who have limited time to gain basic proficiency and begin to communicate naturally with Japanese language speakers. Intended for both self–study and classroom use the guide offers a practical course in colloquial Japanese, but leaves aside forms that are unnecessary or little used as well as those that are more important for written Japanese. In short chapters, it helps the user understand the logic of Japanese grammar, while its straightforward explanations and clear examples make learning as easy as possible. The book includes a glossary of grammatical terms and an index, as well as appendixes on Japanese pronunciation and verb conjugation. In a focused and convenient approach, Essential Japanese Vocabulary is an indispensable tool for beginners just starting to learn Japanese or a handy aid for more experience learners who wish to refresh their knowledge.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-23
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781462913367

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600 Basic Japanese Verbs by Anonim Pdf

600 Basic Japanese Verbs is a handy, easy-to-use guide to one of the building blocks of Japanese grammar—verbs. This book will be an essential resource for students wishing to learn Japanese as it shows how to conjugate the 600 most common Japanese verbs quickly, and with very little effort. This is the only guide to list all verb forms in both Japanese script and romanized form, while giving an accurate English translation for each conjugated form, making this book far more comprehensive than any other book on the subject. Compiled by Japanese language experts at The Hiro Japanese Center, more than 30 different verbal forms are given for each verb including all forms used in contemporary spoken, written, formal and conversational Japanese—making this the ideal reference when reading any sort of Japanese printed materials including manga, newspapers, magazines and books. 600 Basic Japanese Verbs places an expert resource at your fingertips, giving you the information you need to speak, read, and write Japanese sentences correctly. Key features of this book are: Includes all the most useful verbs and Kanji (logographic Chinese characters) in Japanese, including less common ones. A wealth of example sentences are given to demonstrate correct verb usage. Over 30 forms are given for each verb including polite or formal, plain, negative, potential, conditional, passive, causative, and many more. Both Kana, Japanese script, and romanized forms are given for each entry. An ideal study guide for the standard Advanced Placement college test and the Japanese Language Proficiency Exam. Special sections are devoted to compound verbs and suru verbs such as Kaimono suru (to shop), benkyo suru (to study), and much more.

Author : P. W. Galbraith,J. G. Karlin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137283788

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Idols and Celebrity in Japanese Media Culture by P. W. Galbraith,J. G. Karlin Pdf

This is the most complete and compelling account of idols and celebrity in Japanese media culture to date. Engaging with the study of media, gender and celebrity, and sensitive to history and the contemporary scene, these interdisciplinary essays cover male and female idols, production and consumption, industrial structures and fan movements.

Author : Olly Richards
Publisher : Teach Yourself
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-07
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781529377170

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Short Stories in Japanese for Intermediate Learners by Olly Richards Pdf

An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners of Japanese. "Olly's top-notch language-learning insights are right in line with the best of what we know from neuroscience and cognitive psychology about how to learn effectively. I love his work - and you will too!" - Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller A Mind for Numbers Short Stories in Japanese for Intermediate Learners has been written especially for students from low-mid intermediate (ACTFL) level of Japanese. Mapped to B1 and approaching B2 on the Common European Framework of Reference, these eight captivating stories are designed to give you a sense of achievement and a feeling of progress when reading, and most importantly - enjoyment! What does this book give you? - Eight stories in a variety of exciting genres, from science fiction and crime to history and thriller - making reading fun, while you learn a wide range of new vocabulary - Controlled language at your level to help you progress confidently - Spoken dialogues in a range of polite and casual forms in real settings to help you to improve the flow and accuracy of your spoken Japanese. - To help you advance your kanji recognition skills, furigana is used to support reading higher level or unusual kanji and for the first appearance for common kanji. - Common vocabulary from levels 4 and 5 of the JLPT (Japanese Language Proficiency Test) along with vocabulary carefully chosen from the higher levels help you learn useful new expressions and progress through the intermediate reading levels. - Accessible grammar so you learn new structures naturally, without feeling overwhelmed or frustrated - Practical tips help you to unlock the meaning of Japanese sentences and new kanji words successfully. - Beautiful illustrations accompanying each story, to set the scene and support your understanding - Pleasure! Research shows that if you're enjoying reading in a foreign language, you won't experience the usual feelings of frustration - 'It's too hard!' 'I don't understand!' With intriguing plots that will spark your imagination and keep you reading, Short Stories in Japanese for Intermediate Learners will take your grasp of Japanese to the next level with key features to support and consolidate your progress, including: - A glossary for bolded words in each chapter - Full plot summary - A bilingual word list - Comprehension questions after each chapter. As a result, you will be able to focus on enjoying reading, delighting in your improved range of vocabulary and grasp of the language, without ever feeling overwhelmed. From science fiction to fantasy, to crime and thrillers, Short Stories in Japanese for Intermediate Learners will accelerate you journey towards fluency. Use the codes inside the book and ebook to access a bonus story for free and the discounted audiobook on our Language Readers Library site or in the Language Readers app.

Author : Oleg Benesch,Ran Zwigenberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781108481946

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Japan's Castles by Oleg Benesch,Ran Zwigenberg Pdf

Considering Castles and Tenshu -- Modern Castles on the Margins -- Overview: "from Feudalism to the Edge of Space" -- From Feudalism to Empire -- Castles and the Transition to the Imperial State -- Castles in the Global Early Modern World -- Castles and the Fall of the Tokugawa -- Useless Reminders of the Feudal Past -- Remilitarizing Castles in the Meiji Period -- Considering Heritage in Early Meiji -- Castles and the Imperial House -- The Discovery of Castles, 1877-1912 -- Making Space Public -- Civilian Castles and Daimyo Buyback -- Castles as Sites and Subjects of Exhibitions -- Civil Society and the Organized Preservation of Castles -- Castles, Civil Society, and the Paradoxes of "Taisho Militarism" -- Building an Urban Military -- Castles and Military Hard Power -- Castles as Military Soft Power -- Challenging the Military -- The military and Public in Osaka -- Castles in War and Peace: Celebrating Modernity, Empire, and War -- The Early Development of Castle Studies -- The Arrival of Castle Studies in Wartime -- Castles for town and country -- Castles for the empire -- From feudalism to the edge of space -- Castles in war and peace II: Kokura, Kanazawa, and the Rehabilitation of the -- Nation -- Desolate gravesites of fallen empire: what became of castles -- The imperial castle and the transformation of the center -- Kanazawa castle and the ideals of progressive education -- Losing our traditions: lamenting the fate of japanese heritage -- Kokura castle and the politics of japanese identity -- "Fukko": hiroshima castle rises from the ashes -- Hiroshima castle: from castle road to macarthur boulevard and back -- Prelude to the castle: rebuilding hiroshima gokoku shrine -- Reconstructions: celebrations of recovery in hiroshima -- Between modernity and tradition at the periphery and the world stage -- The weight of Meiji: the imperial general headquarters in hiroshima and the -- Meiji centenary -- Escape from the center: castles and the search for local identity -- Elephants and castles: odawara and the shadow of tokyo -- Victims of history I: Aizu-wakamatsu and the revival of grievances -- Victims of history II: Shimabara castle and the Enshrinement of loss -- Southern Barbarians at the gates: Kokura castle's struggle with authenticity -- Japan's new castle builders: recapturing tradition and culture -- Rebuilding the Meijo: (re)building campaigns in Kumamoto and Nagoya -- No business like castle business: castle architects and construction companies -- Symbols of the people? conflict and accommodation in Kumamoto and Nagoya -- Conclusions.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 7561937091

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HSK标准教程 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Makino, Seiichi,牧野成一,筒井通雄
Publisher : Japan Times Publishing, Limited
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UCSD:31822006474597

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日本語基本文法辞典 by Makino, Seiichi,牧野成一,筒井通雄 Pdf

Grammatical terms - Characteristics of Japanese grammar - Basic conjugations - Verbs - Connection forms of important expressions - Numerals and counters - Compound words.

Author : Goran Powell
Publisher : Ymaa Publications
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1594392536

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Chojun by Goran Powell Pdf

When Kenichi Ota retires he is the same age as his karate teacher Chojun Miyagi was when he died. Ota decides to honor his teacher by writing his memoirs. As a young man Ota accompanied Miyagi to China searching for the meaning of karate. Upon their return to Okinawa they learn the Japanese have just destroyed Pearl Harbor. Ota is conscripted to Colonel Yahara in charge of the island's defenses, and finds himself in the epicenter of the Battle for Okinawa. Ota and Miyagi are forced to adapt to a new world order, to rebuild their island, and preserve Miyagi's brand of karate

Author : K. Henshall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1999-06-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780333981092

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Dimensions of Japanese Society by K. Henshall Pdf

Japan remains one of the most intriguing yet least understood nations. In a much needed, balanced and comprehensive analysis, among other remarkable revelations, this book presents for the first time a vital key to understanding the organisation of Japan's society and the behaviour of its people. The Japanese are not driven by a universal morality based on Good and Evil, but by broad aesthetic concepts based on Pure and Impure. What they include as 'impure' will surprise many readers.