At Yale he served as chairman of the Department of East and South Asian Languages and Literatures and the Department of Linguistics. He received his undergraduate and master's degrees in Oriental languages from the University of California at Berkeley and his Ph.D. Martin was a master teacher of the Japanese language and a major force in language learning in the postwar U.S. Two accomplished teachers have teamed up to revise this work to make learning Japanese manageable, practical and fun! Basic Japanese: Learn to Speak Japanese in 10 Easy Lessons - About the Author Audio recordings by native speakers are in the free CD-ROM in the book.Ĭommunication Notes: A detailed discussion of each sentence follows, to assist you in understanding the underlying structure and how to form new sentences based on the same pattern.Įveryday Conversations: Authentic dialogues with manga illustrations and native-speaker recordings show you how people communicate naturally in Japan today through simple, everyday interactions.Įxercises: Several sets of easy exercises help reinforce your understanding of the key points presented in the lesson and review what you have learned so you can move on to the next lesson.
Key vocabulary and phrases are learned within the context of these sentences. Each self-contained lesson is designed to ease learners into new material through a simple four-step method:īasic Sentences: Each lesson begins with a few simple sentences. Manga illustrations have been added for each dialogue along with the latest jargon for Internet, social media, cellphones and IT, and a bidirectional dictionary is included at the back. This new edition has been thoroughly updated and expanded to reflect the way Japanese is actually spoken in Japan today. The emphasis is on acquiring a working knowledge of simple, everyday Japanese sentences. It adopts a very different approach from other Japanese language books teaching you the underlying sentence structures and patterns of Japanese along with key vocabulary and phrases so you can attain basic fluency quickly. Basic Japanese is a user-friendly guide for beginners designed for use in a classroom or for self-study.
This best-selling Japanese language textbook has brought basic fluency in Japanese to thousands in the US and beyond. John Murray Learning (Hodder Education)īasic Japanese: Learn to Speak Japanese in 10 Easy Lessons by Samuel E.Collins Language courses with Paul Noble.Bien-dire Essentials French Audio Learning Guides.
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