Author: Basil Hall Chamberlain

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-15

Total Pages: 606

ISBN-13: 9781330100240

Excerpt from A Handbook of Colloquial Japanese This edition, though revised with great care, practically reproduces its forerunners of 1888 and 1889. A small quantity of new matter added to the "Theoretical Part," or Grammar proper, for completeness sake, has been absorbed into the old paragraphs without disturbing their order. Thus, references to the Colloquial Handbook in a manual of Japanese writing which the author has in view, will be equally intelligible to students, whichever edition they may happen to possess. In the "Practical Part," or Reader, one or two pieces that had lost their interest have been dropped, and a new piece - an extract from the debates in the Imperial Diet - has been substituted. Thanks are due to many correspondents - some of them personally unknown to the author - for corrections and suggestions. Similar criticism will always be gratefully received in the future; for in the case of a language so exceptionally difficult as Japanese, the utmost that any grammarian, however painstaking, can hope to produce necessarily falls far short of the ideal, and here, if anywhere, the saying holds good that in multitude of counsellors there is safety. 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.