Practical Japanese Your Guide to Speaking Japanese Quickly and Effortlessly in a Few Hours by Jun Maeda
T UT T LE P UBLI S HI NG Tokyo • Rutland, Vermont • Singapore
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Contents Foreword A guide to pronunciation Basic Japanese sounds Lesson 1: What is this? Lesson 2: Where are you going? Lesson 3: Can you do it? Lesson 4: Do you have it? Lesson 5: Do you like it? Lesson 6: Please and thank you Lesson 7: Numbers Lesson 8: What time is it? Lesson 9: What day is it? Lesson 10: Seasons and months Lesson 11: Greetings and expressions Lesson 12: Food and eating Lesson 13: How is the weather? Lesson 14: Review Lesson 15: Let's go shopping! Lesson 16: How are you feeling? Lesson 17: Body parts Lesson 18: You and I, your and my Lesson 19: This and that Lesson 20: Adjectives Lesson 21: Adverbs Lesson 22: Many and much, little and few Lesson 23: Where is it? Lesson 24: Let's make a phone call! Lesson 25: A Japanese game and a song Vocabulary List
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Foreword In this modern jet age, one can reach any part of the world within a day or less. Although English is widely spoken, it is very helpful to have some knowledge of the language of the country which you are visiting in order to make your trip more enjoyable by communicating with the local people and understanding their culture. Intended for beginners who wish to learn to speak very basic Japanese in just a few hours, this book is written in a clear and simple yet versatile way. With approximately 350 basic words and examples of how they are used in practical conversational speech, one can acquire a fundamental working knowledge of Japanese from this book, so you can express yourself in simple Japanese sentences. This book has several exercises for each lesson. A