Contemporary Japanese Textbook, Volume 1: An Introductory Language Course [With CD (Audio)] by Sato, Eriko

Contemporary Japanese Textbook Volume 1: An Introductory Language Course (Audio Recordings Included) [With CD (Audio)] (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780804847131)

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Format: Paperback
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Contemporary Japanese Textbook, Volume 1: An Introductory Language Course [With CD (Audio)] by Sato, Eriko

Contemporary Japanese Textbook Volume 1: An Introductory Language Course (Audio Recordings Included) [With CD (Audio)]

$29.95
Contemporary Japanese Textbook, Volume 1: An Introductory Language Course [With CD (Audio)] by Sato, Eriko

Contemporary Japanese Textbook Volume 1: An Introductory Language Course (Audio Recordings Included) [With CD (Audio)]

$29.95
Format: Paperback
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This Japanese language book contains 61 short lessons grouped into 14 chapters--each of which presents a wide variety of activities and exercises and yet is designed to be covered in a single session.

This "daily multivitamin" approach to learning Japanese makes it easy to track your progress and to review later! Access to companion audio online comes free with the book, providing native speaker recordings giving correct pronunciations for the dialogs and vocabulary in each lesson.

Contemporary Japanese is a textbook series for beginning students of Japanese at the college or high school level. It is intended for classroom use as well as self-study. Each lesson in the book is very short and has a single, clearly-defined objective. All lessons make use of the "active discovery" approach which encourages rapid learning through "guess and try" problem-solving and participation as opposed to rote memorization. This highly effective method uses real-life conversations that make learning fun by involving you in a conversation with your peers. It also removes the fear of saying something wrong!

Key Features of This Japanese language textbook include:
  • Basic sounds, words, phrases and kana
  • Describing the property of people and things
  • Identifying things and people
  • Requesting
  • Description
  • Expressing what you have
  • Using numbers and katakana
  • Talking about the past
  • Coming and going
  • Relating states and events
  • Describing daily-life activities
  • Talking about the present
  • Location of people and things
  • Expressing the characteristics of people and things

Available separately is Contemporary Japanese Workbook Volume 1. This accompanying Japanese workbook serves as a supplementary material as well as a standalone comprehensive workbook for practicing and reviewing the language. Audio recordings containing drills, dialogs and listening comprehension exercises for most activities accompanies the workbook.

All media content is accessible on the Tuttle Publishing website.

Author: Eriko Sato
ISBN-10: 0804847134
ISBN-13: 9780804847131
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Language: English
Published: 08/30/2016
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 9.90h x 7.50w x 0.80d
By Eriko Sato
By Eriko Sato
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Eriko Sato is Associate Professor of Japanese and translation studies at the State of University of New York at Stony Brook, where she is also the Director of the Japanese Teacher Education Program.She has authored and co-authored over a dozen books, including Japanese Stories for Language Learners, Essential Japanese Grammar and Learning Japanese Kanji. She has also authored or co-authored Japanese Demystified, Japanese for Dummies, Complete Japanese Grammar, Japanese Phrases for Dummies, Basic Japanese, and My First Japanese Kanji Book

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