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In Japan, Ets in other Eastern countriea, two dialects are used aimiiltaiieously, one for speaking, tlie otli3r for wT iting purposes. The spoken or cclloqiiia] dialect is tltat to which consuls, merebantH, missionaries, and others who ore brought into daily relations with the Japanese, must devote their first efforts. Their nest step should be to acquire the written language, without a knowledge ... More

In Japan, Ets in other Eastern countriea, two dialects are used aimiiltaiieously, one for speaking, tlie otli3r for wT iting purposes. The spoken or cclloqiiia] dialect is tltat to which consuls, merebantH, missionaries, and others who ore brought into daily relations with the Japanese, must devote their first efforts. Their nest step should be to acquire the written language, without a knowledge of which every book, every newspaper, every post-card, every adverfS fement, every notice in a railway-station or on board a steamer remains a my.stery, when transU terated into Roman characters. Some of differences affect the vocabulary. But the constantly reourrmg diiS cuI ties are rather in the grammar, and may be mastered in a few weeks by those to whom the colloquial ia fM niliar. The great obstacle hitherto has been tlio absence of any book specially devoted to the elucidation of the modem form of the written languafceM r, Aston a admirable treatise covers a much wider field. Previous writers had left Japanese grammar a chaos. Mr. Aston brought light and order into its every part. But most persons have neither time nor niclma tion to investigate every part. Their concern is not with the Japanese classics and philological researdi but with the language as commonly wi itten now and tlie weary of seareliiug through the pagesof aloarntdworkfoi the every day which alone to them are useful. The object of the lent little book is to put before such persons, in as simple as poB sible, iuel so much as mil ens.
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