Full Description
Designed to accompany an introductory Japanese language course, The Handy Katakana Workbook contains 8 teach-yourself study sheets and 26 worksheets on how to write and read Katakana, 2 Practice Quiz Exercises, and a Katakana chart with stroke order. The workbook is designed to be covered in 15 to 25 hours of instruction. Each study sheet introduces new Katakana. Each worksheet presents a sufficient number of Katakana and their combinations for beginning level students to practice. Each study sheet and work sheet is intentionally laid out and presented in the same manner in order to create a sense of confidence and to allow the student to establish the feeling of accomplishment through success. Unlike the methods used in traditional language classes, The Handy Katakana Workbook teaches you to read and write from Day One.
Approximately 500 Katakana words (150 from basic functional Japanese and 350 from other sources) are introduced in this book. Layout and instructions in this book will make learning Katakana easy and enjoyable. The Handy Katakana Workbook is prepared by language specialists who understand the logic and psychology behind language learning. When going through the exercises, you will be able to acquire Katakana with less effort.
This workbook does not contain the explanations of the origin of Kana, its history and development. The author's intent is to assist you to become familiar with Japanese syllabaries, and to be able to use them in a short period of time.
