Everything you need to learn Japanese quickly!
Learning Japanese is a complete language learning package designed
for people who want to learn to communicate in Japanese quickly and
easily—whether on your own or with a teacher. The book introduces all the
basics of the language including pronunciation, vocabulary and sentence
patterns—so you can engage in simple conversations right from the start!
Useful explanations of the Japanese script, greetings and requests, verb
conjugations, honorific forms and etiquette dos and don'ts are all included. A
dictionary of commonly-used words and phrases is provided at the back.
The carefully-constructed lessons in this book all relate to useful everyday
topics such as:
- Introducing
yourself and meeting people
- Numbers,
counting money and telling time
- Going
to a restaurant and ordering food
- Talking
about your family, hobbies and personal interests
- Shopping,
getting around and asking directions
- Dealing
with phones and IT issues
Hours of free native-speaker online audio recordings accompany the dialogues,
vocabulary and exercises—enabling you to practice pronouncing and understanding
all the Japanese words and sentences! Free downloadable flashcards available
online are also a great help in memorizing the vocabulary and phrases, and
memorable manga-style comic strips provide helpful visual prompts for the
dialogues.
This ultimate language has everything you need—at a fraction of the price of
expensive language kits!
About the Author
Emiko Konomi received her PhD from Cornell and
taught Japanese language at Portland State University at all levels for many
years.
She also trained Japanese-language instructors at various
teacher-training programs in the U.S. Her passionate teaching style and
dedication earned her the John Eliot Allen Outstanding Teaching Award in 2011
and 2015.
She is the author of Reading and Writing Japanese
Hiragana and Reading and Writing Japanese Katakana.
