Speak Japanese with Confidence with Three Audio CDs: A Teach Yourself Guide

Speak Japanese with Confidence with Three Audio CDs: A Teach Yourself Guide
Author: Helen Gilhooly
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2010-01-15
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780071664639

Enjoy learning the Japanese you need! Finally an entertaining, non-intimidating way for you to build speaking proficiency! This Japanese course covers 10 key situations--from greetings and buying food and drink to shopping, asking for directions, and visiting locals--and includes two dialogues per topic. The explanations and instructions are simple and bite-size, making this a very accessible program for your on-the-go lifestyle. You can also visit teachyourself.com for tests, extension articles and a vibrant community of like-minded learners. And if you don't have much time, don't worry--this book gives you one-, five-, and 10-minute bites of learning to get you started.

Essential Japanese

Essential Japanese
Author: Periplus Editors,
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2013-02-05
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1462910548

This portable, user-friendly Japanese language guide, phrasebook and dictionary is the cheapest and easiest way to learn Japanese before and during your trip. If you only want to purchase one Japanese language book--Essential Japanese is the way to go. Part of Tuttle Publishing's Essential Series, it is a great first introduction and beginner guide to the language of Japan and is also designed as a Japanese phrasebook, making it the most versatile Japanese language learning tool on the market. Perfect for business people or tourist traveling to Japan or for students who want to supplement their learning, this book's easy indexing feature allows it to act as a Japanese phrase book or as an English-Japnese Dictionary. A clever "point to" feature allows you to simply point to a phrase translated in Japanese without the need to say a word. You will soon find yourself turning to Essential Japanese again and again when visiting Japan and working or interacting with Japanese speakers. In this book you will find: Over 1500 practical sentences for everyday use. A glossary of over 200 terms and expressions. Latest Japanese vocabulary and Japanese phrases for smartphones, social media and more. Japanese characters (kana and kanji) as well as Latin script (romanji). Extensive information about Chinese grammar and pronunciation. This beginner Japanese book will help you to quickly and easily learn Japanese. Your ability to read Japanese, write Japanese, speak Japanese, and comprehend Japanese will be vastly improved without having to take an entire Japanese language class. Other titles in this bestselling series of phrasebooks include: Essential Japanese, Essential Chinese, Essential Korean, Essential Tagalog, and Essential Arabic.

Teach Yourself Speak Japanese With Confidence

Teach Yourself Speak Japanese With Confidence
Author: Helen Gilhooly
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2010
Genre: Japanese language
ISBN: 9781444100211

Presents dialogues providing the Japanese needed to speak and understand, and teaches the skills needed for listening and understanding.

Teach Yourself Instant Japanese

Teach Yourself Instant Japanese
Author: Elisabeth Smith
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000
Genre: Japanese language
ISBN: 9780658008948

These streamlined language guides are the answer for people who have little patience and even less time to study. Even those who have failed in traditional language courses succeed with the Teach Yourself Instant . . . guides. These easy courses teach only the words and phrases that really matter and bypass difficult and bothersome grammar rules. It is a method that will get people speaking a new language right away and conversing with confidence after only six weeks.

Teach Yourself Japanese

Teach Yourself Japanese
Author: H. J. Ballhatchet
Publisher: Hodder Education
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2001-11-30
Genre: Japanese language
ISBN: 9780340804643

Teach Yourself Japanese is a complete course in understanding and speaking Japanese. It will give you a thorough grounding in the basics and take you onto a level where you can communicate with confidence. The pack contains the book and two CDs.

Remembering the Kana

Remembering the Kana
Author: James W. Heisig
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2007-04-30
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0824850335

Following on the phenomenal success of Remembering the Kanji, the author has prepared a companion volume for learning the Hiragana and Katakana syllabaries of modern Japanese. In six short lessons of about twenty minutes, each of the two systems of "kana" writing are introduced in such a way that the absolute beginner can acquire fluency in writing in a fraction of the time normally devoted to the task. Using the same basic self-taught method devised for learning the kanji, and in collaboration with Helmut Morsbach and Kazue Kurebayashi, the author breaks the shapes of the two syllabaries into their component parts and draws on what he calls "imaginative memory" to aid the student in reassembling them into images that fix the sound of each particular kana to its writing. Now in its third edition, Remembering the Kana has helped tens of thousands of students of Japanese master the Hiragana and Katakana in a short amount of time . . . and have fun in the process.

Remembering the Kanji 2

Remembering the Kanji 2
Author: James W. Heisig
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-04-30
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780824836696

Following the first volume of Remembering the Kanji, the present work provides students with helpful tools for learning the pronunciation of the kanji. Behind the notorious inconsistencies in the way the Japanese language has come to pronounce the characters it received from China lie several coherent patterns. Identifying these patterns and arranging them in logical order can reduce dramatically the amount of time spent in the brute memorization of sounds unrelated to written forms. Many of the “primitive elements,” or building blocks, used in the drawing of the characters also serve to indicate the “Chinese reading” that particular kanji use, chiefly in compound terms. By learning one of the kanji that uses such a “signal primitive,” one can learn the entire group at the same time. In this way, Remembering the Kanji 2 lays out the varieties of phonetic pattern and offers helpful hints for learning readings, that might otherwise appear completely random, in an efficient and rational way. Individual frames cross-reference the kanji to alternate readings and to the frame in volume 1 in which the meaning and writing of the kanji was first introduced. A parallel system of pronouncing the kanji, their “Japanese readings,” uses native Japanese words assigned to particular Chinese characters. Although these are more easily learned because of the association of the meaning to a single word, the author creates a kind of phonetic alphabet of single syllable words, each connected to a simple Japanese word, and shows how they can be combined to help memorize particularly troublesome vocabulary. The 4th edition has been updated to include the 196 new kanji approved by the government in 2010 as “general-use” kanji.

Essential Japanese Phrasebook & Dictionary

Essential Japanese Phrasebook & Dictionary
Author: Tuttle Studio,
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2017-02-14
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1462919197

Essential Japanese Phrase Book & Dictionary teaches you the practical phrases and expressions needed for common, everyday interactions in Japan in a clear, concise, accessible and enjoyable way. Key features of this Japanese phrasebook and dictionary include: Over 1,500 practical phrases for everyday use An English to Japanese dictionary with over 2,000 terms and expressions Essential expressions used for meeting people, starting conversations, and asking and replying to simple questions Manga illustrations to illustrate critical phrases and situations A pronunciation guide and Japanese grammar notes explain the basic sounds and sentence patterns of the Japanese language The latest Japanese vocabulary and phrases for smartphones, social media and more Japan travel tips, cultural notes and much more! All words and phrases are in Romanized form as well as the Japanese script. Basic Japanese grammar and pronunciation notes get you speaking right away, and tips on culture and etiquette allow you to interact in Japanese without making serious blunders. Whether you're a novice or have some experience with the language, this is a reference you'll turn to again and again when visiting Japan and interacting with Japanese people.

Complete Japanese: A Teach Yourself Guide

Complete Japanese: A Teach Yourself Guide
Author: Helen Gilhooly
Publisher: Mcgraw-hill
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2010-10-15
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780071747868

It's easy to teach yourself Japanese! Complete Japanese: A Teach Yourself Guide provides you with a clear and comprehensive approach to Japanese, so you can progress quickly from the basics to understanding, speaking, and writing Japanese with confidence. Within each of the 24 thematic chapters, important language structures are introduced through life-like dialogues. You'll learn grammar in a gradual manner so you won't be overwhelmed by this tricky subject. Exercises accompany the texts and reinforce learning in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. This program also features current cultural information boxes that reflect recent changes in society. Features: One and five-minute introductions to key principles to get you started Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author’s many years of experience Tests in the book and online to keep track of your progress Extra online articles at www.teachyourself.com to give you a richer understanding of the basics of the language

Get Talking Japanese in Ten Days Beginner Audio Course

Get Talking Japanese in Ten Days Beginner Audio Course
Author: Helen Gilhooly
Publisher: Teach Yourself
Total Pages: 10
Release: 2012-05-25
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9781444170573

If so then you need to Get Talking. Through 10 common scenarios plus culture and travel advice, you?ll learn the skills for understanding and the confidence to speak Japanese in just 10 days. Practice the most frequent words and expressions for: - making introductions and greetings - making phone calls - eating out - buying souvenirs - buying food and drink - asking for directions - sightseeing - talking about illness - talking on the move - visiting a Japanese home You'll progress in your understanding of naturally-paced conversations, be able to personalize the language through interactive role-plays and perfect your pronunciation to sound more natural. This absolute beginner Japanese course contains an MP3 CD. You can download the audio files on this disc from your computer to your MP3 player or play it in an MP3 CD player. Also included is a handy phrasebook and a PDF coursebook for reading and writing practice. Get Talking Japanese in Ten Days maps to A1 of the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) for languages. Rely on Teach Yourself, trusted by language learners for over 75 years.