Description
This entertaining and instructive activity book introduces English-speaking children to simple words in the Japanese language. Japanese youngsters just beginning to read and write also will find the easy-to-follow book helpful. Spaces are provided for drawing each hiragana symbol with one, two, or three strokes.
Forty-six characters make up the basic Japanese hiragana, or alphabet, with each symbol of the hiragana depicting a syllable rather than a single letter. With these 46 characters, you'll be able to write hundreds of words in Japanese -- from ahiru (duck), ame (candy)' and atama (head) to yuki (snow), yuri (lily), and yubi (finger).
For each character, there is a selection of ready-to-color illustrations of items whose names begin with that character -- more than 330 words in all -- along with the word in Japanese characters. A separate list accompanies the Japanese word with a transliteration and an English translation. The book also lists 58 hiragana "modified syllables" used to form thousands of additional words.
Author: Yuko Green
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 10/27/2000
Pages: 48
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 10.96h x 8.27w x 0.25d
ISBN13: 9780486413365
ISBN10: 0486413365
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Language Study | General
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Activity Books | General
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Games & Activities | Word Games
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