A fully integrated three-level series with related supplementary materials, which is suitable for both self-study and classroom use, forms a comprehensive course in basic Japanese. With numerous speaking, listening, reading and writing tasks, quizzes and illustrations to make the learning process both fun and effective, this book prepares readers for Level 3 of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test.

This Workbook for Volume 2 (intended for both kana and romanised editions) includes exercise conversations from the textbook,short dialogues, target dialogues, and additional materials, many of which are accompanied by illustrations. In addition, new appendices list the particles, interrogatives, and sentence patterns in the book, as well as the kanji introduced. This series is prepared by a working group of experienced Japanese language instructors who reviewed and tested the material in a classroom environment. The conjugation rules are relaxed and aren’t bound to some exceptions of verbs as well as adjectives. Kanji (Chinese characters used in Japanese) are gradually introduced in Book II along with furigana so that learners know how to pronounce them.

The student will also learn interesting facts about Japanese characters, traditional Japanese tools and crafts, and English words that have originated in Japan by reading the notes, written in English, throughout the book. Students who have completed all three levels of this series will acquire language skills generally equivalent to Level 4 of the Japanese-Language Proficiency Test.

I've beens studying with a teacher from Japan Online School, which I would recommend checking out also. Used this book for both self-study before my first trip to Japan, and it was also the class manual for my Japanese language classes (after I came back from my trip).

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. Through repeated oral and listening practice, learners will come to acquire the rhythm of real life Japanese conversation. Coming out of this book, I was no where near being conversational, but I did have a decent grasp of survival Japanese. I struggled to read sentences in this book that I would have read naturally if they had kanji in them. Japanese ( Nihongo) is a language spoken by over 130 million people, mainly in Japan, but also by Japanese emigrant communities around the globe.

this is a acceptable introductory choice, as long as you are willing/able/motivated enough to use other resources (like the internet or the library) to fill in the blanks. I did follow those guidelines, but I used the Assimil textbook which is a bit more haphazard in its introduction of grammar concepts. In this book, Julian Moore brings together the ideas from the past and brings them right up to date with a fun, easy to remember system using an ancient divination technique.

They are nearly all information gap, which can be boring, but they really do help familiarize the learner with Japanese sentence structure. AJALT created the best-selling Japanese for Busy People series, as well as the Japanese for Young People series, both published by Kodansha USA Publishing. With over 20 components including texts, workbooks, CDs, videos and teacher's manuals, it is also one of the most comprehensive.

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. Now, more than a decade after its first revision, the series is being redesigned, updated and consolidated to meet the needs of todays students and businesspeople who want to learn natural, spoken Japanese as effectively as possible in a limited amount of time. However, the exercises are mainly rote copying of the example given rather than making you think about what words/grammar structures you're choosing and why. The title says it all – a tool for busy people who want to learn Japanese effectively and efficiently. Rather, it is designed to help learners consolidate their understanding of syntactical structure through lessons that focus on how to talk about topics relevant to daily life.

In comparison to the other languages, the vocabulary knows very few pronunciations in addition to sounds. I've flipped through some of the later chapters and found that I can understand everything (after mentally putting the kanji back in), even if I wouldn't be able to say those things myself yet. Each lesson in this workbook provides practice problems for helping students apply what they have learned. This edition is quite good for vocabulary (though much of it is business-based) but light on grammar.