Japanese for Busy People 1: Romanized Version

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Useful for my purposes which was having dialogues and passages to read at my level without the romaji directly next to the kana.

This companion workbook to Beginning Japanese is the perfect guide for practicing basic conversational Japanese and written Japanese. 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 . 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. Toward this end, it has been written to be slightly more advanced, and faster-paced, than the main text while also dealing with topics a little outside those already found in the Target Dialogues and Speaking Practice sections.The Romanized Version uses romanized Japanese throughout, with kana in the Opening Dialogues of each lesson. 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 classroom, or for independent in dividual study. This first of three volumes introduces "survival Japanese"-the absolute minimum amount of Japanese needed to live in Japan. 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.

Audio for the short conversations and phrases in the textbooks are available to download from the Kodansha USA web site. 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. In addition, new appendices list the particles, interrogatives, and sentence patterns in the book, as well as the kanji introduced. The conjugation rules are relaxed and aren’t bound to some exceptions of verbs as well as adjectives. Each entry covers the lessons presented in a unit, and there is a field for adding comments on the entry.By that I mean the beginning of very chapter introduces a few new words and concepts, and the rest of the chapter showcases sentences that use those words/concepts, presenting you with basic patterns and structures for you to plug the new words into. They will also learn the appropriate expressions and words that are essential for day-to-day interactions with people in Japan. This isn't a huge problem if you're learning your kanji with WaniKani, but it can become irritating to read all kana paragraphs when you're used to kanji.

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. JFBP 1 is excellent for practicing the kana (hiragana and katakana), but no kanji is introduced until book 2. 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. This series is prepared by a working group of experienced Japanese language instructors who reviewed and tested the material in a classroom environment. Tell us why you liked or disliked the book; using examples and comparisons is a great way to do this.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. 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.

Put another way, this means that by successfully completing the materials covered in Volume II and in the workbook, you will be able to proceed from “survival level” all the way to intermediate and even advanced fluency.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. At each level, enough vocabulary and grammar has been provided to enable the learner to easily communicate in uncomplicated adult Japanese. By bidding on, or purchasing this item, you are agreeing to us sharing your name and address details with that 3rd party supplier to allow us to fulfil our contractual obligations to you. Each lesson provides quizzes for reviewing the grammar and reading materials for improving the comprehension level.