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  2. Kunrei-shiki romanization - Wikipedia

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    Kunrei-shiki romanization (Japanese: 訓令式ローマ字, Hepburn: Kunrei-shiki rōmaji), also known as the Monbusho system (named after the endonym for the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) or MEXT system, [1] is the Cabinet -ordered romanization system for transcribing the Japanese language into the Latin alphabet.

  3. Romanization of Japanese - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The romanization of Japanese is the use of Latin script to write the Japanese language. [ 1 ] This method of writing is sometimes referred to in Japanese as rōmaji (ローマ字, lit.'Roman letters', [ɾoːma (d)ʑi] ⓘ or [ɾoːmaꜜ (d)ʑi]). Japanese is normally written in a combination of logographic characters borrowed from ...

  4. Hepburn romanization - Wikipedia

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    Hepburn romanization (Japanese: ヘボン式ローマ字, Hepburn: Hebon-shiki rōmaji, lit. 'Hepburn-style Roman letters ') is the main system of romanization for the Japanese language. The system was originally published in 1867 by American Christian missionary and physician James Curtis Hepburn as the standard in the first edition of his ...

  5. Japanese: The Spoken Language - Wikipedia

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    ISBN. 978-0-300-03834-7. Japanese: The Spoken Language (JSL) is an introductory textbook series for learning Japanese. JSL was written by Eleanor Harz Jorden in collaboration with Mari Noda. Part 1 was published in 1987 by Yale Language Press, Part 2 in 1988, and Part 3 in 1990. The series differs from most Japanese language textbooks in many ...

  6. Nigel Spencer - Wikipedia

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    Nigel Spencer. Nigel Spencer is a writer, translator, and professor of English living in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He has thrice received the Canadian Governor General's Literary Award for translation, in 2002, 2007, and 2012. [1][2][3] He was also awarded a 'Proclamation of Recognition' by President Lansana Conté of the Republic of Guinea.

  7. The Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    The Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary. The Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary is a kanji dictionary based on the New Japanese-English Character Dictionary by Jack Halpern at the CJK Dictionary Institute and published by Kenkyūsha. Originally published in 1999 (with a minor update in 2001), a Revised and Updated Edition was issued on 2013 ...

  8. List of translators into English - Wikipedia

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    George Chapman ( Iliad, 1611; Odyssey, 1614–15) Albert Spaulding Cook. William Cowper (complete, 1791) Robert Fagles. Robert Fitzgerald. Martin Hammond. Judith Kazantzis. Andrew Lang and Samuel Henry Butcher (complete, in prose, 1879) Richmond Lattimore.

  9. Nihon-shiki romanization - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Nihon-shiki (Japanese: 日本式ローマ字, lit. 'Japan-style', romanized as Nihonsiki in the system itself) is a romanization system for transliterating the Japanese language into the Latin alphabet. Among the major romanization systems for Japanese, it is the most regular one and has an almost one-to-one relation to the kana writing ...