Professor MAKI Hideki of the Faculty of Regional Studies is publishing a book entitled Minna no Introduction to Mongolian -- It Is Similar to Classical Japanese!
Sain baina-uu! It may sound like "senbei noooooo" ("rice cracker noooooo"), but in Mongolian it means "Hello." It doesn't mean "There are no rice crackers." Two Japanese people who know absolutely no Mongolian set out to learn the language from scratch with the help of two Mongolian collaborators. What decisively sets this book apart from other introductory textbooks is the number of words used: just 108. With only those, it becomes possible to express most things in Mongolian. Audio recordings of the key example sentences can be downloaded from the publisher's website. - perfect to listen to while watching sumo. → something like: This is a book you might want to keep within reach while watching sumo.
Minna no Introduction to Mongolian -- It Is Similar to Classical Japanese!
Author MAKI Hideki（Professor, Faculty of Regional Studies of Gifu University）,BAO Lina (Associate Professor, School of of Foreign Languages of Qiannan Normal College for Nationalities), BAO Ting-Ting (Graduate Student, Graduate School of Regional Studies of Gifu University) and NIINUMA Fumikazu (Professor, Department of English Language and Culture of Morioka University)
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- Publisher:Kaitakusha
- Publication date:April 20, 2026
- Price:2,420yen(tax included)
- Format:A5 size, 172 pages
- ISBN: 978-4-7589-2438-2
- Publisher URL: Book information page
