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. More fundamental revisions have been made to
Book II, which has been expanded and divided into two volumes, Book
II and Book Ill. The changes result in a smoother transition from
Book I, make new grammatical elements clearer, and present more
natural practice dialogues and exercise sentences. 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. 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.
Business Japanese
(Shoji Azuma and Ryo Sambongi; ISBN: 087840855X;
(pbk. : alk. paper); 100% match)
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Japan Style Sheet
(Editors and Translators Society of Writers, Editors and Translators The Society of Writers, ; ISBN: 1880656302;
Paperback; 1998-06-01; 100% match)
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