Japanese for Busy People 1: Romanized Version

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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. At each level, enough vocabulary and grammar has been provided to enable the learner to easily communicate in uncomplicated adult Japanese.

Each lesson provides quizzes for reviewing the grammar and reading materials for improving the comprehension level. Japanese ( Nihongo) is a language spoken by over 130 million people, mainly in Japan, but also by Japanese emigrant communities around the globe. This first of three volumes introduces “survival Japanese”—the absolute minimum amount of Japanese needed to live in Japan. They are nearly all information gap, which can be boring, but they really do help familiarize the learner with Japanese sentence structure.The downloadable audio resources are designed for to enhance and augment the listening and speak ing exercises, and offer an ideal tool for private lessons, for the. 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. Japanese for Busy People' is, as the title suggests, a concise course for 'busy' students who want to learn natural spoken Japanese as effectively as possible in a limited amount of time. Now, a decade after its first revision, the entire series is being redesigned, updated and consolidated to meet the needs of 21st-century students and businesspeople who want to learn natural, spoken Japanese as effectively as possible in a limited amount of time.

It ended up pretty useful, since I was able to communicate quite a lot with Japanese people, after having read the manual for a couple of weeks (Japanese is an easy language at start to speak, but very hard at speaking well, from what I've seen so far). The thirty lessons are composed of dialogues, notes on grammar, and vocabulary, exercises and quizzes.

As you look through this workbook, therefore, you will probably notice that the Japanese presented in the back is considerably more difficult than what appears toward the front.

In the 22 years since its publication, Japanese for Busy People has won acclaim worldwide as an effective, easy-to-understand textbook, either for classroom use or for independent study. I give it 4 stars for a good beginner book, but if you've been studying Japanese longer than a year, this is probably not a good book for you. As there are many different versions of the JFBP series floating around, I thought I'd end with a note on which to get: Stick with the 3rd Editions of all these books. They will also learn the appropriate expressions and words that are essential for day-to-day interactions with people in Japan.Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. I’ve been on a Japanese study journey for a while now but since I’ve taken up extra work at my job, I’ve been slacking. Grammar and content topics are carefully selected to assist learners to effectively develop sentence patterns and vocabulary related to each topic through the practice of talking about them.

If you only have 15-30 minutes to spend studying this book and it's sequels are ideal for you: short lessons, just enough grammar in each lesson, 100% aimed at self-study, practical vocabulary. Biography: The Association for Japanese-Language Teaching (AJALT) was recognized as a nonprofit organization by the Japanese Ministry of Education in 1977.Practice conversations, listening, rudimentary comprehension, and grammar and vocabulary usage on each topic. This workbooks provide practices for using the vocabulary and grammar in the textbooks, including conversation Exercises, Speaking Practices, and Target Dialogues, which are accompanies by a large number of illustrations. If I was to start again I'd probably go with Genki I and II along with the techniques described here: http://japaneselevelup. The exercises in the book have also been thoroughly revised to incorporate more comprehension and production tasks.