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Basic Japanese

Speak Japanese in 10 Easy Lessons Book & Audio CD & Online Audio

Samuel E. Martin Eriko Sato

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Japanese
Tuttle
01 September 2012
A user-friendly book that works equally well in a classroom setting or as a self study text, Basic Japanese takes a different approach from other language books, emphasizing the structure of the language rather than vocabulary. By focusing on sentence patterns as the key to attaining a basic competence in Japanese, it offers a comprehensive introduction to the modern colloquial language.
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Imprint:   Tuttle
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 20mm
Weight:   567g
ISBN:   9784805309629
ISBN 10:   4805309628
Pages:   320
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Mixed media product
Publisher's Status:   Active

Samuel E. Martin was a master teacher of the Japanese language and a major force in language learning in the postwar U.S. He received his undergraduate and master's degrees in Oriental languages from the University of California at Berkeley and his Ph.D. in linguistics from Yale University. At Yale he served as chairman of the Department of East and South Asian Languages and Literatures and the Department of Linguistics. He is the author of numerous books and papers on Japanese and Korean, including the definitive A Reference Grammar of Japanese and A Reference Grammar of Korean. <br>Eriko Sato is lecturer of Japanese and Japanese linguistics and the director of the Pre-College Japanese Program and the Teacher Certification Program for Japanese at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where she received her Ph.D. in Linguistics in 1996. She authored Japanese for Dummies (Wiley, 2002), Japanese Demystified (McGraw Hill, 2008), and Contemporary Japanese: A Textbook for College Students (Tuttle, 2005), and co-authored My First Japanese Kanji Book (Tuttle, 2009) and Essential Japanese Grammar (Tuttle, 2012).

Reviews for Basic Japanese: Speak Japanese in 10 Easy Lessons Book & Audio CD & Online Audio

This book excels at differentiating really similar concepts, even adding more to the never-ending question of 'What is the difference between [this character] and [this character]?' The vocabulary words are also thematically arranged, usually with illustrations for some words for better memory reinforcement. Pronunciation in the CD tracks actually sounds natural compared to other learning materials --Japan Reference blog


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