Japanese for Dummies Audio Set

Introduction 1 About This Audio Set 1 Conventions Used in This Audio Set 2 Foolish Assumptions 2 How This Audio Set Is Organized 3 Where to Go from Here 3 Romanization 3 Punctuation 6 Pitch Accents 6 Lesson 1:1: Welcome and Overview of CD1: The Basics 9 Lesson 1:2: Personal Pronouns and Formalities 10 Respectful titles 11 Lesson 1:3: Saying “Hello” and “Goodbye”. 12 Lesson 1:4: Saying and Replying to “How Are You?” 13 Lesson 1:5: Introducing Yourself and Talking about Where You’re From 14 Lesson 1:6: Indispensable Words 15 People 16 Places 16 Emergency 17 Important items 17 Lesson 1:7: Useful Expressions and Phrases 18 Lesson 1:8: Question Words 19 Lesson 1:9: Useful Questions 20 Lesson 1:10: An Overview of Numbers 21 Lesson 1:11: Talking about Time 23 Asking about time 24 Time-related terms 24 Lesson 1:12: The Calendar and Dates 25 The days of the week 25 The months 25 The days of the month 26 Month and date-related questions and answers 27 Lesson 1:13: Directions 28 Lesson 2:1: Introduction and Overview of CD2: The Nitty-Gritty: Language Structure 29 Lesson 2:2: Nouns 30 Things in your room 30 Locations 30 Transportation 31 Animals 31 Foods and beverages 31 Lesson 2:3: Plain and Polite Family Terms. 32 Older family members 32 Younger family members 33 Spouse 33 Extended family members 33 Lesson 2:4: Counters. 35 Lesson 2:5: Demonstratives 37 Lesson 2:6: Adjectives 38 Preference and desire 39 Colors 40 Nationalities 40 Lesson 2:7: Degrees of Adjectives. 41 Lesson 2:8: To Be or Not to Be: A Very Important Verb 42 Lesson 2:9: Verbs. 44 Irregular verbs 45 Ru-verbs 45 U-verbs 45 Desu 46 Lesson 2:10: Verb Tenses. 47 Plain 47 Polite 48 Desu 48 Example sentences 48 Lesson 2:11: Negatives 49 Lesson 2:12: Particles 50 Particles for subjects and direct objects 52 Example sentences 52 Lesson 2:13: Conjunctions. 53 Example phrases and sentences using conjunctions 53 Lesson 2:14: Forming Simple Sentences 54 Lesson 2:15: Introducing More Complete Sentences. 55 Lesson 3:1: Introduction and Overview of CD3: Real-World Situations 57 Lesson 3:2: At the Office 58 People around the office 58 Office activities 58 Example sentences 59 Lesson 3:3: On the Job 60 Occupations 60 Work-related verbs 61 Example sentences 61 Lesson 3:4: Making Small Talk. 62 Lesson 3:5: Making Appointments. 64 Lesson 3:6: Arranging Travel 66 Lesson 3:7: Asking for Directions 67 Lesson 3:8: Asking for and Getting Help. 69 Lesson 3:9: At the Restaurant 71 Lesson 3:10: At the Hotel 72 Lesson 3:11: At the Bank 73 Lesson 3:12: At the Store 74 Mini-Dictionary 75 Japanese-English Mini-Dictionary 75 English-Japanese Mini-Dictionary 82