From the age of a year and a half, Helen Keller could not hear. She could not see, and she did not speak. She lived in a dark and lonely world--until Annie Sullivan came to teach her. Annie traced letters and words in Helen's hand, and made Helen realize she could "talk" to people. Eager to make up [...]

This companion volume teaches the basics of katakana, the script for writing loanwords borrowed from English and other languages. The book introduces the characters not in the traditional a-i-u-e-o order, but in a radical new one that allows students to sound out words from the very first page.
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"Kodansha's Katakana Workbook", designed for beginner-level students, teaches the basics of katakana, the script used for writing English words in Japanese. The book introduces the characters not in the traditional a-i-u-e-o order, but in a radical new one that most usefully serves the needs of the [...]