Japanese for all Occasions
The Right Word at the Right Time
Authors | Anne Kaneko, Sally Motomura |
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Publisher | Tuttle |
Category | Respect language and etiquette |
ISBN | 0804815674 [COPAC, Webcatplus, Wikipedia] |
Review by Mark Barton
This book is approximately one third advice on life in Japan and Japanese etiquette, with the remaining space being example conversations and letters. Things to be spoken are uniformly in romaji, but things to be written are usually given in kanji as well. I think anybody learning Japanese, especially those actually living in Japan, will find a lot of useful material in it, although the most advanced stuff (e.g. sample speeches for weddings) is probably only for the most confident.