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On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 01:38:36 GMT, "necoandjeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> belched the alphabet and kept on going with: ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> I see that a revision of the venerable "A Guide to Reading and >> Writing Japanese" has just been released by Tuttle. About time - >> the original was 1959 and the last revision was 1961. Now it covers the >> 常用漢字 and not just the 当用漢字. >> >> The revision has been done by Ken Henshall and Chris Seeley. > >Back when I first started studying it didn't take me long to understand that >I should steer away from Tuttle. They hadn't taken the time or trouble to >update any of their books from the occupation era. I guess I'm thankful now >for having such a diverse vocabulary but I did not need to be learning words >like 蓄音機 or 女中 during my first year of studying Japanese... 女中 is handy if you read much stuff from half a century ago, though.
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