Excerpt from Colloquial Japanese, or Conversational Sentences and Dialogues in English and Japanese: Together With an English-Japanese Index to Serve as Vocabulary This work was commenced without the remotest View to publica. Tiou. That part of it which is arranged alphabetically, had been written and rewritten and laid aside, when some friends happening to see it, suggested that it might be useful to other students of the Japanese language, if it were published. Still it might never have gone to the press. But for the offer of a mercantile friend in this country, to bear the expense of its publication. It was then, that the idea of adding some dialogues; an english-japanese index; and a grammatical introduction suggested itself. The author has not hesitated to avail himself of all possible aid from the works of others within his reach. Collado's Ara Grammaticm Japonicaa 1632. Rodriguez' Grammaire J aponaise, 1825. The J apanese - Portu. Gueso Dictionary, 1003; and the work by M. J. R. Donkcr Cur tius, edited by M. L. J. Hoffman, Leipsic, 1857; have been his mom valuable aids, more especially the two last named. 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.