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Designed especially for international travellers, yet also suitable for foreign language teaching at high schools and colleges.

Comprehensive ESL Japanese III includes 30 additional lessons (16 hrs.), plus Readings, which build upon the language skills acquired in Levels I, II. Increased spoken and reading language ability.

A new and exciting approach to basic Japanese for young adults The Association for Japanese-Language Teaching (AJALT), renowned for its Japanese for Busy People series, has developed a comprehensive course for teaching Japanese to young adults in English-speaking countries. Japanese for Young People is a new three-level series designed primarily for junior-high and high school curricula encouraging systematic Japanese-language acquisition through an enjoyable but structured learning process. W...

This page-a-day Japanese language pad teaches a new Japanese phrase each day--useful vocabulary that comes in handy for everyday situations when visiting Japan. Although more people are studying the Japanese language than ever before, others are still wary of starting because they believe, "it's too difficult." But A Japanese Phrase A Day will show absolute beginners that Japanese is in many ways much easier than other languages and it will help intermediate Japanese learners review and improve...

Learn to write 100 Japanese characters If you want to join the ranks of more than 128 million speakers of Japanese worldwide, this book should be your first stop! Whether studying for school, business, or travel, learning to write the Japanese Kanji characters is essential to gain a working knowledge of this language. Japanese is considered to be the most complicated writing system in the world, with tens of thousands of characters. But with Japanese Character Writing For Dummies, you'll find ea...

With this fun, user-friendly, and uniquely visual Japanese language course, you can teach yourself Japanese in just 12 weeks. DK's 15-Minute Japanese--now relaunching with a new free audio app--is the perfect course for busy people who want to learn Japanese fast. Twelve themed chapters are broken down into easy-to-follow 15-minute daily lessons, spanning a range of practical themes, including socializing, doing business, food and drink, travel, and shopping. Each lesson combines vocabulary an...

In Japanese, register--the way you change your words depending on who you are speaking to--plays a key role. The rules of register in Japanese are far more complicated than they are in English, but until now there hasn’t been a book that lays it all out in an accessible format. Japanese for All Occasions is a much-needed introduction to this bewildering aspect of the language, aimed at intermediate students and above. Through 57 dialogues, veteran teacher Taeko Kamiya shows learners how the J...

While in the Land of the Rising Sun have some fun trying to speak a bit of Japanese with this easy-to-access A-Z list of words and phrases. There's also travel information on a range of topics: toilets, tipping, capsule hotels, love hotels...; language notes to show you how not to put your foot in it; some basic Japanese characters; a guide to food; and, maps.

Random House Webster's Pocket Japanese Dictionary is primarily intended for two types of English-speaking users: those who have no knowledge of the language and those who have some knowledge of the language but still need a dictionary to explain grammar, words and phrases. It should prove an indispensable tool for anyone needing a bilingual dictionary that presents basic vocabulary of both languages in an accessible, easy to use format. Includes: Over 20,000 entries Japanese-English, English-Ja...

In the sixth month of 736, a Japanese diplomatic mission set out for the kingdom of Silla, on the Korean peninsula. The envoys undertook the mission during a period of strained relations with the country of their destination, met with adverse winds and disease during the voyage, and returned empty-handed. The futile journey proved fruitful in one respect: its literary representation-a collection of 145 Japanese poems and their Sino-Japanese (kanbun) headnotes and footnotes-made its way into the...