Excerpt from An Introductory Course in Japanese With the hope that this manual, however imperfectly its aim has been followed, may be helpful to those who shall accept the course Of study it Opens, I submit it to the indulgent judgment Of its students, and Of the friends Of the Japanese language. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.