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An Introduction to the
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Sounds and Rhythms of Japanese
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Association for Japanese-Language Teaching
Wadaiko (lit. ‘Japanese drum’) immerses students
in the sounds and rhythms of the Japanese lan-
guage through songs, poetry, tongue twisters and
other word games. The purpose is to get learners
to “feel” Japanese, to absorb it with their ears,
without being expected to understand it all. The
book is divided into two parts. Part 1 is made up
of 5 lessons, and Part 2 of four “seasons”. Col-
our illustrations and photographs appear on al-
most every page. Romanised Japanese is used as
an aid for those who haven’t learned the writing
system yet, and English translations of the songs
and poems are also shown, but otherwise the text
is in Japanese to conform with modern teaching
methodology. There are exercises and questions,
quizzes, and other interactive features. The free
CD contains audio of Japanese folk songs that
students can sing along with. Wadaiko has been
designed to work alongside any teaching meth-
odology as a resource to aid understanding and
help perfect pronunciation. Ideal for beginners, it
can be picked up at any stage of learning.
The Association for Japanese-Language Teaching (AJALT) was recognised as a
nonprofit organisation by the Ministry of Education in 1977. It was established to meet
the practical needs of people who are not necessarily specialists on Japan but who
wish to communicate effectively in Japanese. In 1992 AJALT was awarded the Japan
Foundation Special Prize. In 2010 it became a public interest incorporated association.
AJALT maintains a website at www.ajalt.org
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WADAIKO An Introduction to the Sounds
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THE LIVING BEAT AND TIMBRE OF THE JAPANESE LANGUAGE
• This is the first book ever to introduce
students to Japanese through its sounds and
rhythms
• It is NOT about teaching sentences and syn-
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natural music of the language
• Recent research shows a major reason for
young people wanting to learn Japanese is inter-
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• Songs, poems, tongue twisters and other
games expose students to Japanese culture and
the beauty of the Japanese language
• A free CD is an essential part of this process,
allowing students to sing along, or repeat exer-
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• Text conforms with current requirements in
being in Japanese orthography, with romanised
Japanese and English in the appendices and the
vocabulary lists at the bottom of each page.
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352 pages, 1,005 ‘kun’ kanji
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Another invaluable language tool

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from the compiler of such classics as
The Kanji Dictionary and The Kanji
Learner’s Dictionary, among others..

The Kodansha
KANJI USAGE GUIDE

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An A to Z of Kun Homophones
Editor-in-Chief: Jack Halpern

Organised as a dictionary in Japanese

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kana order, this is the first-ever guide to
‘kun-yomi’ homophones: native Japanese
words that sound the same yet have dif-
ferent meanings and are therefore written

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using different kanji characters.
One of the many difficulties that learners of Japanese come
up against is that so many words sound exactly the same, but
mean something different. These homophones weren't bor-
rowed from Chinese many centuries ago, but are native Japa-
nese words ("kun" words); furthermore, they may have more

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than 2 meanings, depending upon the Chinese character (or
kanji) used to represent the sound. For example, hanasu can
mean 'speak' 話 or 'release' 放 or 'separate' 離 ...

This is the first book to address this issue head-on, and of-
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meanings for each sound are, as well as how these separate
meanings are written in kanji. It is organised in the natural Jap-

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anese dictionary order a-ka-sa-ta-na-ha-ma-ya-ra-wa, and con-
forms to the preference for Japanese orthography in contem-
porary teaching methodology, with all kanji also phonetically
rendered. Furthermore, the entries are all numbered for ease of
cross-reference, and their SKIP reference and numbering from
Halpern's best-selling Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary and
Kodansha Kanji Dicitonary [both p.XX] are included to enable
further research.

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Thousands of compounds and examples illustrate the 1,005 in-
dividual kanji entries: the kun- homophones within the stand-
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