Japanese for Busy People I, Revised Edition

Japanese for Busy People I, Revised Edition
by: Association For Japanese Lanaguage Teaching (AJALT)
232 Pages|Kodansha International | English | ISBN: 4770018827 |PDF|18.5 MB

For people who want to learn essential Japanese as quickly and effectively as possible.

Learn Japanese that can be put to immediate use in conversational situations.

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.

This concise course in natural Japanese is ideal for such students as businessmen whose aim is a working knowledge of the spoken language in everyday life. Survival Japanese for Adults,' as it might be called, gets to the heart of the language without recourse to childish or classroom-only Japanese.


Table of Contents

Preface to the Revised Edition
Introduction
Acknowledgments
Writing and Pronunciation
Characteristics of Japanese Grammar
Useful Daily Expressions
Signs in Daily Life
Lesson 1: Introductons
Lesson 2: Address and Telephone Number
Lesson 3: Day and Time
Lesson 4: How Much?
Lesson 5: Counting Objects
Lesson 6: Going and Coming
Lesson 7: Going by Taxi
Lesson 8: Existence of People and Things
Lesson 9: Place, Location
Lesson 10 Tickets Bought
Lesson 11 Reading Review
Lesson 12 Telephoning
Lesson 13 Delicious Cakes
Lesson 14 Yesterday's Enjoyable Kabuki
Lesson 15 Giving and Receiving
Lesson 16 Asking Preferences
Lesson 17 Invitation to a Party
Lesson 18 Ownership and Events
Lesson 19 Doing This and That
Lesson 20 Requests and Orders
Lesson 21 Having Things Done
Lesson 22 Public Transportation
Lesson 23 Asking Permission
Lesson 24 Refusal
Lesson 25 Now in Progress
Lesson 26 Reading Review
Lesson 27 Present Condition
Lesson 28 Expressing Preferences
Lesson 29 Dining Out
Lesson 30 Reading Review

Appendices
A. Particles
B. Interrogatives
C. Sentence Patterns
D. Adjectives
E. Verb Conjugations
F. Ko-so-a-do
G. Country, Nationality, Language
H. Common Japanese Names
I. Counters
J. Extent, Frequency, Quantity
K. Time Expressions
L. Parts of the Face and Body
M. Kanji

Quiz Answers
Japanese-English Glossary
English-Japanese Glossary
Index

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