Easy Japanese : a direct learning approach for immediate communication / Samuel E. Martin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martin, Samuel E. (Samuel Elmo), 1924-2009, author.

Series:

Tuttle language library Easy Japanese

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese language--Spoken Japanese.

Japanese language.

Japanese language--Conversation and phrase books--English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (455 p.)

Edition:

Fourth revised edition.

Distribution:

Singapore : Asia Pacific, [date of distribution not identified]

Place of Publication:

Tokyo, Japan : Tuttle Publishing, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a carefully structured, practical book for learning colloquial spoken Japanese.Each lesson presents a few of the most common features of the language in sentences which are short, easy, and immediately useful. The first thirteen lessons show you there is a lot that can be said with just a word or two. The later lessons introduce more variety and explain a few of the fine points. The sentences reflect how the Japanese language is really spoken. They are short but colloquial, abrupt but not rude. Each lesson contains first a number a number of Japanese phrases followed by material f

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; PART 1 Say It With a Word-or Two; Lesson 1. Hello and Goodbye; Lesson 2. Excuse Me, Thank you, and Please; Lesson 3. Who?; Lesson 4. What?; Lesson 5. Have You Got Any?; Lesson 6. Where?; Lesson 7. Whose?; Lesson 8. When?; Lesson 9. How Much?; Lesson 10. How Many? How Old?; Lesson 11. How Many People?; Lesson 12. What Time?; Lesson 13. How Long?; PART 2 Add a Bit of Action; Lesson 14. Did You?; Lesson 15. Do You? Will you?; Lesson 16. Shall We? Let's; Lesson 17. What Kind?; Lesson 18. Is, Am, and Are; Lesson 19. What's Doing?; Lesson 20. Please Do!

PART 3 Sprinkle in a Few ParticlesLesson 21. Where From? Where To?; Lesson 22. Where Shall We Eat?; Lesson 23. Me Too; Me Neither; Lesson 24. Who Does What?; Lesson 25. A Sentence Opener (wa); Lesson 26. What Did You Say?; Lesson 27. Is It or Isn't It?; Lesson 28. Can You? Probably; Lesson 29. Because and But; Lesson 30. How To Be Emphatic; PART 4 3000 Useful Japanese Words; PART 5 Writing Charts; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4629-1308-3

OCLC:

868282044