Lonely Planet Japanese Phrasebook & Dictionary with Audio

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Lonely Planet Japanese Phrasebook & Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful Japanese phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Get to know your sushi from your sake, enjoy an elaborate tea ceremony with its centuries'-old conventions, and find your way elaborate transit maps -all with your trusted travel companion. With language tools in your back pocket, you can truly get to the heart of wherever you go, so begin your journey now!Get More From Your Trip with Easy-to-Find Phrases for Every Travel Situation! Feel at ease with essential tips on culture, manners, idioms and multiple meanings Order with confidence, explain food allergies, and try new foods with the menu decoder Save time and hassles with vital phrases at your fingertips Never get stuck for words with the 3500-word two-way, quick-reference dictionary Be prepared for both common and emergency travel situations with practical phrases and terminology Meet friends with conversation starter phrases Get your message across with easy-to-use pronunciation guides Inside Lonely Planet Japanese Phrasebook & Dictionary: Full-colour throughout User-friendly layout organised by travel scenario categories Survival phrases inside front cover for at-a-glance on-the-fly cuesCovers Basics - time, dates, numbers, amounts, pronunciation, reading tips, grammar rules Practical - travel with kids, disabled travellers, sightseeing, business, banking, post office, internet, phones, repairs, bargaining, accommodations, directions, border crossing, transport Social - meeting people, interests, feelings, opinions, going out, romance, culture, activities, weather Safe Travel - emergencies, police, doctor, chemist, dentist, symptoms, conditions Food - ordering, at the market, at the bar, dishes, ingredients The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet Japanese Phrasebook & Dictionary, a pocket-sized comprehensive language guide, provides on-the-go language assistance. Great for language students and travellers looking to interact with locals and immerse themselves in local culture. About Lonely Planet: Since 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel media company with guidebooks to every destination, an award-winning website, mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet covers must-see spots but also enables curious travellers to get off beaten paths to understand more of the culture of the places in which they find themselves.eBook Features: (Best viewed on tablet devices and smartphones) Downloadable PDF and offline maps prevent roaming and data charges Effortlessly navigate and jump between maps and reviews Add notes to personalise your guidebook experience Seamlessly flip between pages Bookmarks and speedy search capabilities get you to key pages in a flash Embedded links to recommendations' websites Zoom-in maps and images Inbuilt dictionary for quick referencing Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.

Sujets

• Lettres et linguistique
• Japanese

Informations

• Publié par: Lonely Planet Global Limited
• Date de parution: 01 septembre 2018
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781788686327
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 15 Mo

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Japanese audio phrasebook
September 2018
Published by
Lonely Planet Global Limited CRN 554153
Cover Image
Nightlife in Shinsekai district, Osaka. Sean Pavone/Alamy
ISBN 9781788686327
Text Lonely Planet 2018
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acknowledgments
Thanks to the following people for their contributions to this phrasebook:
Yoshi Abe for supplying the translations and transliterations, and for lending his expert advise on aspects of Japanese linguistics and culture. Yoshi holds a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Linguistics, and a Masters Degree in Anthropology. He also has ample experience as a Japanese teacher and translator, wrote the previous edition of this phrasebook and co-authored Lonely Planet s World Food Japan . Yoshi would like to thank Leonie Boxtel for her practical advice as an experienced expat living in Tokyo and for her invaluable support. He also wishes to thank Annelies Mertens at Lonely Planet for her precise work and patience as an editor.
Commissioning editors Karina Coates, Rachel Williams and Karin Vidstrup Monk for getting the ball rolling and seeing the project through until the end.
Publishing managers Peter D Onghia and Ben Handicott for supporting this edition. Project manager Fabrice Rocher for assembling and tirelessly managing the project team.
Assisting editors Francesca Coles, Piers Kelly, Branislava Vladisavljevic and Laura Crawford for their contributions.
Layout designers Jacqui Saunders, David Kemp and Katherine Marsh for lending a hand with the finishing touches.
Series designer Yukiyoshi Kamimura for the book and cover designs, and inside illustrations. Daniel New for the cover illustration.
Thanks also to cartographic designer Wayne Murphy and managing cartographer Paul Piaia for the language map, Mark Germanchis and Ben Handicott for production support and LP s print production department for getting the book to the printer.
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
map
introduction
TOOLS
pronunciation
a-z phrasebuilder
language difficulties
numbers amounts
time dates
money
PRACTICAL
transport
border crossing
directions
accommodation
shopping
communications
banking
sightseeing
business
senior disabled travellers
children
SOCIAL
meeting people
interests
feelings opinions
going out
romance
beliefs cultural differences
art
sport
outdoors
FOOD
eating out
self-catering
vegetarian special meals
culinary reader
SAFE TRAVEL
essentials
HEALTH
SUSTAINABLE TRAVEL
DICTIONARIES
english-japanese dictionary
japanese-english dictionary
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make the most of this phrasebook
Anyone can speak another language! It s all about confidence. Don t worry if you can t remember your school language lessons or if you ve never learnt a language before. Even if you learn the very basics (on the inside covers of this book), your travel experience will be the better for it. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain when the locals hear you making an effort.
finding things in this book
For easy navigation, this book is in sections. The Tools chapters are the ones you ll thumb through time and again. The Practical section covers basic travel situations like catching transport and finding a bed. The Social section gives you conversational phrases, pick-up lines, the ability to express opinions - so you can get to know people. Food has a section all of its own: gourmets and vegetarians are covered and local dishes feature. Safe Travel equips you with health and police phrases, just in case. Sustainable Travel, finally, completes this book. Remember the colours of each section and you ll find everything easily; or use the comprehensive Index. Otherwise, check the two-way traveller s Dictionary for the word you need.
being understood
Throughout this book you ll see coloured phrases on each page. They re phonetic guides to help you pronounce the language. Start with them to get a feel for how the language sounds. The pronunciation chapter in Tools will explain more, but you can be confident that if you read the coloured phrase, you ll be understood. As you become familiar with the spoken language, move on to using the actual text in the language which will help you perfect your pronunciation.
using the audio
You ll notice the numbered tags (eg 32A) beside a selection of phrases in this book. The number refers to the audio track, the letter indicates the order it will be read in the audio track - so a is first, b is second etc. Use the audio to help master your own pronunciation, or use it on the road by transferring the MP3 files to your portable media player and letting it do some of the talking for you.
For more details, see the introduction .
INTRODUCTION

Japanese - or ni hon go ( ) - is spoken by over 125 million people. While it bears some resemblance to Altaic languages such as Mongolian and Turkish and shows strong grammatical similarities to Korean, linguistic researchers have not been able to prove its origins. Despite this absence of a clear link to related languages, there are noticeable influences from nonrelated languages. Chinese is not only responsible for the existence of many Sino-Japanese words in Japanese, but also for the use of the originally Chinese kanji writing characters which the Japanese use in combination with the indigenous hiragana and katakana scripts. Trade with several European countries from the 16th until the 19th century has led to the inclusion of some Portuguese and Dutch loanwords and since the end of WWII many loanwords have come from English.
Other languages spoken in Japan include Ainu and Ry ky an. Ainu is unrelated to Japanese, and was once spoken in northern Honsh and the islands of Hokkaid and Sakhalin. Today it is sadly on its way to extinction. The Ry ky an language varieties are also quite different from but still related to Japanese - some consider them to be dialects of Japanese. They are spoken by the older generations in Okinawa, but no longer by the younger people in this region.
at a glance ...

language name: Japanese
name in language: ni hon go ( )
language family: unconfirmed
approximate number of speakers: 125 million
close relatives: Ry ky an, Korean (arguably)
donations to English: aikido, bento box, bonzai, futon, geisha, harikiri, ikebana, judo, jujitsu, kamikaze, karaoke, karate, kendo, kimono, ninja, origami, sake, sashimi, sumo, sushi, tatami, tsunami, wasabi, yakuza
The Japanese dialects spoken on the main islands can be roughly grouped as eastern and western dialects and, with Ry ky an, complete the picture of Japan s three groups of dialects. These dialects generally do not hinder communication throughout Japan - the language spoken in Tokyo serves as the lingua franca and is used in broadcasting and education. It s also the language used in this phrasebook, so you should have few problems making yourself understood just about anywhere in Japan.
Despite appearances, it s not that hard to get a basic grip on the language. Japanese pronunciation is fairly easy to master for English speakers - unlike some languages in the Asian region it does not have tones - and the grammar is fairly simple. Japanese uses an array of registers of speech to reflect social and contextual hierarchy, but these can be simplified to the form most appropriate for a wide range of social situations - which is exactly what we ve done in this phrasebook. As it may take a long time to master written Japanese, this phrasebook focuses on the spoken language, although we ve added the script everywhere alongside the pronunciation so you can use it to point out phrases.
We re confident that this phrasebook will be useful in Japan. It contains all the key words and phrases you ll need to get by, plus all the social lingo to open up a world of possibilities for social interaction and cultural exchange with the locals. By taking the time to acquaint yourself with Japan s language you ll also be accessing a vital part of a rich and ancient culture and a modern dynamic society. Your efforts to speak Japanese, no matter how modest, will guarantee you a warm welcome by the locals.
abbreviations used in this book a adjective f feminine lit literal translation n noun m masculine pl plural sg singular pol polite v verb
TOOLS pronunciation

vowel sounds
consonant sounds
word stress
reading writing Japanese
Japanese pronunciation is not considered difficult for English speakers. Unlike some other Asian languages, it has no tones and most of its sounds are also found in English.

vowel sounds
Vowels in Japanese can be either short or long. The long ones should be held twice as long as the short ones and are represented in our pronunciation guides with a horizontal line on top of them. symbol English Japanese example a r u n n a ka f a ther sak k e r e d sa k e r ei gn p ji i b i t n i ji b ee sh tsu o p o t m o t to p aw pas p to u p u t m u ra m oo n k ki
It s important to make the distinction between short and long vowels as vowel length can c