Japanese for Busy People

Association for Japanese Language, Teaching Staff

ISBN 10: 4770018827 / ISBN 13: 9784770018823

Published by Kodansha America, Incorporated, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1994

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Book, cover, Dj and Text clean and unmarked.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Japanese for Busy People
• Publisher: Kodansha America, Incorporated, New York, NY, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 4770018827
• ISBN 13: 9784770018823
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New

About this title

Synopsis

The bestselling series Japanese for Busy People has guided hundreds of thousands of students to a fluent, natural, and precise use of the Japanese language. Volume I teaches the absolute minimum amount of Japanese to live in Japan and handle everyday situations.

In the ten years since its publication, Japanese for Busy People has won acceptance worldwide as an effective, easy-to-understand textbook, either for classroom use or for independent study. In this new edition, numerous revisions and additions have been made, taking into account the comments and responses of both students and teachers who have been using the course.

In Book I, the revisions are directed at making the grammatical explanations easier to understand, while adding further explanations of points that students have difficulty with. Changes have also been made in favor of more natural practice sentences and dialogues. In addition, new appendices list the particles, interrogatives, and sentence patterns in the book, as well as the kanji introduced.

Vocabulary and grammar have been limited to about one-third that usually encountered in beginner courses, and words and patterns that students will find immediately useful are emphasized.

The thirty lessons are composed of dialogues, notes on grammar, and vocabulary, exercises and quizzes. In addition to developing verbal fluency, by the time the student is one-third the way through Book I he will have mastered the two phonetic syllabaries of Japanese.

About the Author

THE ASSOCIATION FOR JAPANESE-LANGUATE TEACHING (AJALT) has been recognized as a nonprofit organization by the Ministry of Education since 1997. It was established to meet the practical needs of people who are not necessarily specialists on Japan but who wish to communicate effectively in Japanese. In 1992 the Association was awarded the Japan Foundation Special Prize.