The Spoken Language Of Japan PDF Download

Excerpt from The Spoken Language of Japan: A Course of Exercises in Familiar Conversation In the following table, the Kana signs are given, not in the customary Japanese course of succession, but in conjunction with English equivalents of the various syllables, arranged in an order that is judged convenient for reference by foreign students. It will be observed that several of the signs are more than once repeated, with the addition of the side marks and O, which denote certain changes of utterance. The effect of 'v is to harden the original consonant sound while 0, used only for syllables that begin with an aspirate or dento-labial, indicates a change to the sound of the English labial p. By these means, lea is changed to ya; te to de; hi to bi or pi fu to bu. Or pa etc. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.