Japanese for Beginners is a straightforward learning guide which enables beginners to pick up a functional knowledge of spoken Japanese very quickly and easily.
This complete Japanese language package has helped many thousands of people learn to speak colloquial Japanese. It is designed for busy people who wish to pick up a working knowledge of Japanese on their own in just a few days, rather than a few years. Japanese for Beginners makes this possible by providing a firm grounding in grammar and sentence structure using dialogues and vocabulary that reflect authentic Japanese situations and manga comic strips to emphasize contemporary culture and humor.
Key features of Japanese for Beginners:
Practical Japanese phrases help you converse with ease.
Comic strips (Japanese manga) and dialogues bring Japanese to life.
Exercises help you to practice speaking and listening.
Basic Japanese: Learn to Speak Japanese in 10 Easy Lessons
Samuel E. Martin, Eriko Sato
This best-selling Japanese language textbook has brought basic fluency in Japanese to thousands in the US and beyond.
Basic Japaneseis a user-friendly guide for beginners designed for use in a classroom or for self-study. It adopts a very different approach from other Japanese language books—teaching you the underlying sentence structures and patterns of Japanese along with key vocabulary and phrases so you can attain basic fluency quickly. The emphasis is on acquiring a working knowledge of simple, everyday Japanese sentences.
This new edition has been thoroughly updated and expanded to reflect the way Japanese is actually spoken in Japan today. Manga illustrations have been added for each dialogue along with the latest jargon for Internet, social media, cellphones and IT, and a bidirectional dictionary is included at the back.
Each self-contained lesson is designed to ease learners into new material through a simple four-step method:
Basic Sentences:Each lesson begins with a few simple sentences. Key vocabulary and phrases are learned within the context of these sentences. Audio recordings by native speakers are in the free CD-ROM in the book.
Communication Notes:A detailed discussion of each sentence follows, to assist you in understanding the underlying structure and how to form new sentences based on the same pattern.
Everyday Conversations:Authentic dialogues with manga illustrations and native-speaker recordings show you how people communicate naturally in Japan today through simple, everyday interactions.
Exercises:Several sets of easy exercises help reinforce your understanding of the key points presented in the lesson and review what you have learned so you can move on to the next lesson.
Two accomplished teachers have teamed up to revise this work to make learning Japanese manageable, practical and fun!
Essential Japanese Grammar: A Comprehensive Guide to Contemporary Usage
Masahiro Tanimori, Eriko Sato Ph.D.
Essential Japanese Grammar is an indispensable reference for students of Japanese at all levels.
Long the standard in education, it provides clear, jargon-free explanations of how Japanese grammar works and offers hundreds of example sentences. It is an essential handbook for self-study or for the classroom and should be a valued resource for years to come.
Essential Japanese Grammar presents a number of unique features. First, grammatical terminology has been kept to a minimum so that extensive prior knowledge of grammar is not required. Second, abundant example sentences written in Japanese characters (kana and kanji) followed by romanji and English translations. Third, the authors have tried to reveal aspects of grammar that may not be found in comparable grammar books.
This book contains:
Parts of speech.
Sentence constructions.
Conjugations forms.
Speech styles and tones.
Accentuation rules.
Essential words and functional elements.
An appendix for referencing and cross-referencing Japanese words.
The Complete Japanese Verb Guide: Learn the Japanese Vocabulary and Grammar You Need to Learn Japanese and Master the JLPT
Hiroo Japanese Ctr
The Complete Japanese Verb Guide is a handy, easy-to-use guide to one of the building blocks of language learning—verbs.
To effectively learn Japanese, a strong knowledge of Japanese grammar and vocabulary is needed. This book will come to the rescue as it shows learners how to conjugate the 600 most common Japanese verbs quickly, and with very little effort. This is the only guide to list all verb forms in both Japanese script and romanized form, while giving an accurate English translation for each conjugated form, making this book far more comprehensive than any other book on the subject.
Compiled by Japanese language experts at The Hiro Japanese Center, more than 30 different verbal forms are given for each verb including all forms used in contemporary spoken, written, formal and conversational Japanese—making this the ideal reference when reading any sort of Japanese printed materials including manga, newspapers, magazines and books. The Complete Japanese Verb Guide places an expert resource at your fingertips, giving you the information you need to speak, read, and write Japanese sentences correctly.
