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Japanese Phrase A Day Practice Pad

Learn Japanese, One Day at a Time! (With Online Audio)

By: Sam Brier,Keiko Matsuura

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Japanese Phrase A Day Practice Pad

Learn Japanese, One Day at a Time! (With Online Audio)

By: Sam Brier,Keiko Matsuura

This page-a-day Japanese language pad teaches a new Japanese phrase each day—useful vocabulary that comes in handy for everyday situations when visiting Japan. Although more people are studying the Japanese language than ever before, others are still wary of starting because they believe, "it's too difficult." But A Japanese Phrase A Day will show absolute beginners that Japanese is in many ways much easier than other languages and it will help intermediate Japanese learners review and improve upon their past studies and practice Japanese everyday. Japanese is a fascinating language that uses Chinese characters (kanji) as well as two other alphabets (hiragana and katakana). After a few weeks of gradual progress your ability to read Japanese, write Japanese and speak Japanese will grow tremendously. This calendar like desk companion is divided into monthly topics and builds upon itself, one day at a time. Japanese phrases are kept short, simple and functional. Each of the 365 pages include these four components: The phrase or dialogue in Japanese characters A transliteration using English letters (romanji), which gives English speakers a guide to pronunciation The English translation A related note about the phrase, Japan, or Japanese culture to add context. Audio for all of the Japanese Phrase A Day entries is available online. Listening and repeating after the native speakers in the audio files will help you to practice Japanese regularly and polish your spoken Japanese and Japanese listening comprehension. To get started, turn to Day One and begin studying the phrase, its meaning, pronunciation and cultural context. Then tear off the sheet and practice writing it a few times. In a matter of days you'll be on your way to reading and writing Japanese!

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Tuttle Publishing

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ISBN 10

1462914535

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9781462914531

A Practical Guide for Scholarly Reading in Japanese

By: Fumiko Nazikian,Keiko Ono,Naofumi Tatsumi

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A Practical Guide for Scholarly Reading in Japanese

By: Fumiko Nazikian,Keiko Ono,Naofumi Tatsumi

A Practical Guide for Scholarly Reading in Japanese is an innovative reference guide for scholars specializing in Asian studies, with a special focus on Chinese studies. The book aims to prepare those scholars to conduct research with primary sources from a variety of genres from the 20th century. The book contains concise descriptions of grammar points essential for reading scholarly writings in Japanese and exercises based on excerpts taken from prominent Japanese scholarly texts. Each exercise reading provides a list of vocabulary and explanations of expressions. The reading materials provided mainly cover Chinese history, comparative literature, religion, and culture. The book can be used as a textbook or self-study guide for scholars of Asian studies, as well as students who have completed two years of basic language learning and need to learn to read scholarly Japanese.

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278

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Taylor & Francis

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1000804216

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9781000804218

Economic Analysis of Housing Policy in Japan

Policy Concerning Housing Quality

By: Keiko Nosse Hirono

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Economic Analysis of Housing Policy in Japan

Policy Concerning Housing Quality

By: Keiko Nosse Hirono

This book analyzes housing policy in terms of the quality of housing, theoretically and empirically. The analysis is prompted by the Japanese government’s success in increasing the volume of housing through interest rate policy, as is shown by Vector Autoregession (VAR) analysis in this book; consequently, the focus of housing policy in Japan is now the quality of housing. This is the first book to analyze and propose housing monetary policy and housing subsidy policy to improve the quality of housing, which increase the number of houses that are barrier-free and earthquake resistant. This book is also the first to focus on appropriate valuation of housing using hedonic price function and the quality of houses. Using the method of valuation developed and proposed in this book, market clearing prices of houses can be calculated without analytical and theoretical error. Toward this end, the disclosure of information – the offer prices and attributes – of houses is proposed as a housing policy. In addition, in this research the author has developed a method to estimate the hedonic price index and rent index using the quality of houses for the first time in Japan. With hedonic price and rent functions, the author shows the extent to which differences in home ownership investment are caused by differences in information about the property. This finding shows the need to explore an appropriate method of valuation of houses. The propositions of this book can help companies benefit from the use of the hedonic housing valuation and hedonic price and rent indexes.

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127

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Springer Nature

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9811949255

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9789811949258

Japanese Phrase A Day Practice Pad

Learn Japanese, One Day at a Time! (With Online Audio)

By: Sam Brier,Keiko Matsuura

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Japanese Phrase A Day Practice Pad

Learn Japanese, One Day at a Time! (With Online Audio)

By: Sam Brier,Keiko Matsuura

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Book's by Keiko Matsuura

Japanese Phrase A Day Practice Pad

Japanese Phrase A Day Practice Pad

A Practical Guide for Scholarly Reading in Japanese

A Practical Guide for Scholarly Reading in Japanese

Economic Analysis of Housing Policy in Japan

Economic Analysis of Housing Policy in Japan

Japanese Phrase A Day Practice Pad

Japanese Phrase A Day Practice Pad

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