SPEAK JAPANESE TODAY - A Little Language Goes a Long Way!

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Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America (Free-Press-Release.com) November 15, 2011 -- Home-Course Makes it Possible
For You to Speak Japanese Today

In the last few decades there has been a huge jump in the number of people around the world studying the Japanese language—a phenomenon attributed to the extraordinary popularity of Japanese manga [mahn-gah] “comics,” anime (ah-nee-may) animated films and video games; judo, and karate [kah-rah-tay].

Japanologist and author Boye Lafayette De Mente, internationally known for his 40-plus books on Japan, has published a “home-course” in Japanese that is aimed at this growing audience and anyone else who needs or wants to communicate with Japanese in their own language.
Entitled SPEAK JAPANESE TODAY – A Little Language Goes a Long Way!, the book is based on using English phonetics that make it possible for one to read and pronounce Japanese correctly without any previous study or experience, an approach pioneered by De Mente in his previous books on Japan.
“All you have to do,” De Mente says, “is read the phonetics out loud in standard English and the sound comes out in Japanese.”

The book features key vocabulary and example sentences for specific categories of people, including airline pilots, stewardesses, Immigration officials, Customs officials, hotel staff, restaurant staff, bartenders, shop clerks, taxi drivers, tour guides, doctors, families hosting Japanese students, tourists going to Japan, and foreign students of Japanese.
“The book literally makes it possible for anyone to communicate verbally in Nihongo [Nee-hone-go], the Japanese language, without any previous study or practice,” De Mente adds. Speak Japanese Today is available from Amazon.com in both digital and printed formats.

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Boyé Lafayette De Mente is a graduate of Jōchi University in Tokyo, Japan, and Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Arizona, USA. He is the author of 50-plus books on the business practices, cultures and languages of China, Japan, Korea and Mexico. To see a list and synopses of his books and a brief bio, go to: www.BoyeDeMente.com.

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