Product Description
Aims to guide readers to a fluent use of the Japanese language. Placing emphasis on language as spoken between educated adults, the integrated approach of the course increases speed of comprehension. This first volume teaches the basics for communication, providing a foundation for further study.
From the Publisher
The most widely adopted Japanese language course ever published. A complete range of supplementary audio materials, workbooks and teachers' manuals are also available. Over half a million copies sold world-wide since first publication.
From the Back Cover
In the ten years since its publication, Japanese for Busy People has won acceptance world-wide 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 1, 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 favour 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.
About the Author
Registered with Japan's Ministry of Education as a non-profit organisation in 1977, the Association of Japanese Language Teaching (AJALT) was established to meet the needs of people who are not necessarily specialists on Japan but who wish to communicate effectively in Japanese. Along with private and group instruction at all levels, AJALT carries on research, develops teaching materials and trains teachers of Japanese. Its instructors are often called on to provide their services and expertise to government agencies, foundations and educational institutions. In 1992 the Association was awarded the Japan Foundation Special Prize.
