Learn Japanese with Manga. Volume 2 : a self-study language guide (free online audio) / Marc Bernabe and J. M. Ken Niimura.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bernabé, Marc, author.

Niimura, J. M. Ken, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese language--Study and teaching.

Japanese language.

Japanese language--Spoken Japanese.

Japanese language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.

Japanese language--Writing--Kana.

Manga (Comic books).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (355 pages)

Place of Publication:

North Clarendon, VT : Tuttle Publishing, [2023]

Summary:

Learn to speak, read and write Japanese quickly using manga comics strips! If you enjoy manga, you'll love learning Japanese with this book. The language lessons are interspersed with entertaining manga comic strips that make it easy to learn and remember all the key vocabulary and grammar. The plot picks up where Learn Japanese with Manga Volume 1 left off -- following Nuria, a journalist who is sent to Tokyo to research a news story, where she keeps encountering a mysterious "shadow" or kage. Use your knowledge of hiragana and katakana from Volume 1 to help you decipher hundreds of new kanji vocabulary -- without romanizations! Learn to form complex sentences, with relative clauses, honorific forms and more! Learn hundreds of useful words and phrases -- from how to order food in a restaurant to dealing with unexpected events and emergencies Five manga episodes are woven throughout the book, reinforcing your language skills A bidirectional dictionary and answer keys for all the exercises are included! Learn Japanese with Manga is designed for self-study by adult learners, but is also suitable for classroom use. Audio recordings by Japanese native speakers are available for free online to help you improve your pronunciation and listening skills. With a focus on the casual speech used by young people in Japan today, you'll find yourself speaking and writing Japanese before you know it!

Contents:

Cover

Table of Contents

Introduction

Glossary of abbreviations

Lesson 36: At a Hotel or Ryokan

Lesson 37: Particles (1) wa / ga / mo

Lesson 38: Particles (2) ni / de / e

Lesson 39: Transport in Japan

Lesson 40: Particles (1) no / o

The Kage Story

Kage Manga Episode 2

Review for Lessons 36-40

Lesson 41: Particles (4) to / kara / made

Lesson 42: Shopping

Lesson 43: Suppositions and Conjectures

Lesson 44: Transitive and Intransitive Verbs

Lesson 45: To Give and to Receive

Kage Manga Episode 3

Review for Lessons 41-45

Lesson 46: Compound Sentences (1)

Lesson 47: At a Restaurant

Lesson 48: Compound Sentences (2)

Lesson 49: Compound Sentences (3)

Lesson 50: Relative Clauses 185

Kage Manga Episode 4

Review for Lessons 46-50

Lesson 51: Unexpected Events and Accidents

Lesson 52: Formal Language

Lesson 53: Casual Speech

Lesson 54: Comparatives

Lesson 55: Sightseeing

Kage Manga Episode 5

Review for Lessons 51-55

Lesson 56: The Conditional Form

Lesson 57: Koto and Mono

Lesson 58: Grammar Scramble

Lesson 59: Dialects and Proverbs

Lesson 60: The Passive and Causative Forms

Kage Manga Episode 6

Review for Lessons 56-60

Copyright.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Bernabe,Marc Learn Japanese with Manga Volume Two

ISBN:

9781462923380

OCLC:

1370493248