Katakana should be the easiest way to approach the Japanese written
language since it is used to write all kinds of loanwords that the
reader is already familiar with. However, until recently katakana has
been taught as if students of the language were all Japanese
kindergarten or elementary school kids--ready, more-or-less willing,
and having the time and motivation to learn the traditional katakana
chart by rote. With the present book, as soon as individual
characters are introduced, they are immediately used to form actual,
commonplace, everyday words. Thus, from the very first page of Lesson
1, the reader of this book is able not only to read and write two
characters, but to read several words formed with those characters.
Each succeeding lesson adds to the number of katakana that one can
read and write, and as a matter of course to the student's functional
vocabulary. With the dual Japanese-English and English-Japanese
glossaries at the end of the book, the reader has more than a
thousand words at his or her command. Quizzes are included for those
who wish to test their progress and reinforce what they have learned.
Thanks to All About Katakana, katakana is now a snap.
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