[PDF] Self-Study Japanese Textbook for Beginners

Self-study Japanese textbook for beginners

For European missionaries in the 16th century, Japanese caused countless difficulties in their work and they often called it “the devil's language”. In reality, however, Japanese is relatively easy to learn. For example, Japanese grammar follows fixed rules and is tightly logical. Only reading and writing are relatively hard to pick up.

This book will help you learn, step by step, how to read and write Japanese. You will surely find learning Japanese very interesting, even if you sometimes run into a few difficulties.

Under the Japanese education system, pupils must study Japanese for 9 years. After these 9 years they have been taught a total of 1942 kanji (characters of Chinese origin). This is the basic and necessary foundation that lets learners read books and newspapers with ease.

There are actually many more characters (over 5000), but these are mostly used in the press. 1942 characters sounds like a large number, but it is comparable to Vietnamese, because mastering vocabulary and understanding many kinds of texts takes a long time even though the alphabet itself can be learned easily.

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See also:
Basic Japanese Study Material
The 1945 Common Kanji PDF