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The listening questions are based on Genki audio materials distributed through the OTO-Navi or on a CD included with the workbook. The audio recordings feature narrations of each lesson's dialogue, reading, and certain practice questions. The book's title Genki (from 元気) is an early vocab word meaning "lively" or "energetic."
The Japanese word お辞儀 (ojigi) was derived from the homophone お時宜, which originally meant "the opportune timing to do something". It did not start to denote specifically the act of bowing in the contemporary sense until late Edo period (1603–1868), when samurai bowing etiquette had spread to the common populace.
Let's Learn Japanese is a video-based Japanese language study course for English speakers produced by The Japan Foundation. The two seasons (Series I and Series II) were originally aired on television at a rate of one episode per day, with each episode consisting of two lessons.
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.
Lojban has three word-classes: predicate words (brivla), structure words (cmavo), and name words (cmevla). Each of them has uniquely identifying properties, so that one can unambiguously recognize which word is of which part of speech in a string of the language.
Japanese phonology has been affected by the presence of several layers of vocabulary in the language: in addition to native Japanese vocabulary, Japanese has a large amount of Chinese-based vocabulary (used especially to form technical and learned words, playing a similar role to Latin-based vocabulary in English) and loanwords from other ...
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Japanese pronouns (代名詞, daimeishi) are words in the Japanese language used to address or refer to present people or things, where present means people or things that can be pointed at. The position of things (far away, nearby) and their role in the current interaction (goods, addresser, addressee , bystander) are features of the meaning ...