Japanese for Busy People 1: Romanized Version

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Each section includes lists of theme-specific words and expressions, accompanied by illustrations, to help expand the student's vocabulary. AJALT created the best-selling Japanese for Busy People series, as well as the Japanese for Young People series, both published by Kodansha USA Publishing. This first of three volumes introduces “survival Japanese”—the absolute minimum amount of Japanese needed to live in Japan. They will help expand the student's breadth of conversation with increasingly more complex subject matters. 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.

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. Each chapter introduces target grammar and vocab gradually, so it's never dumped on you all at once. The topics and vocabulary are generally relevant to travellers, but I just wish Kanji got (slowly) introduced sooner than in the level 2 manual.Each lesson in this workbook provides practice problems for helping students apply what they have learned. 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. 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.

Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. I did follow those guidelines, but I used the Assimil textbook which is a bit more haphazard in its introduction of grammar concepts. Used alone, this book would be adequate for a short stay in Japan since basics like "Where is the train station?The grammar explanations only teach you enough to be functional, there are no deep digressions into the socio-psychological meaning of 'wa', the path it takes is clear and simple. 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.