Speak Japanese Today: A Self-Study Program for Learning Everyday Japanese (Japanese Edition) - Softcover

Kamiya, Taeko

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9780804815635: Speak Japanese Today: A Self-Study Program for Learning Everyday Japanese (Japanese Edition)

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ISBN 10: 0804815631 ISBN 13: 9780804815635

Publisher: Tuttle Pub, 1989

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Learn spoken Japanese quickly and efficiently.

Through twenty carefully thought-out lessons and two review chapters, Speak Japanese Today will teach you simple, correct Japanese most useful for everyday situations. Each lesson familiarizes you with new words and phrases in such a way that you will easily be able to remember and use them. And since the lessons concentrate on the spoken language, grammar points are clear, concise, and kept to a minimum. Students, travelers, businessmen, or anyone wanting to speak Japanese in a hurry will find this a rewarding book. Practical and reliable, Speak Japanese Today will start you conversing with confidence immediately.

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About the Author:

Taeko Kamiya is a internationally recognized linguist, teacher and author. She studied at Doshisha Women's College (Kyoto) before receiving Masters degrees from the University of San Francisco in education and from Monterey Institute of International Studies in linguistics. She taught Japanese for twenty-five years at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, and has written several critically acclaimed books about the Japanese Language.

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