Japanese For Young People II: Student Book (Vol 2) [STUDENT EDITION] (Paperback)

by AJALT (Author)

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Product Description
A new and exciting approach to basic Japanese for young adults
The Association for Japanese-Language Teaching (AJALT), renowned for its Japanese for Busy People series, has developed a comprehensive course for teaching Japanese to young adulsts in English-speaking countries.
Japanese for Young People is a new three-level series designed primarily for junior-high and high school curricula encouraging systematic Japanese-language acquisition through an enjoyable but structured learning process. With an emphasis on coordination of structure and verbal communication skills, this second Student Book introduces more building-blocks of Japanese grammer through Key Sentences, Dialogues, Exercises, and Tasks.
This Student Book is accompanied by a set of three cassette tapes and a fully-illustrated Kanji Workbook which features over 100 pages of activities and games to familiarize young students with ninety of the most basic Chinese characters introduced in this book.
With charming illustrations and cultural notes throughout, Japanese for Young People provides an unintimidating start to learning one of the world's most difficult languages.

About the Author

THE ASSOCIATION FOR JAPANESE-LANGUAGE TEACHING [AJALT] was recognized as a nonprofit organization by the Ministry of Education in 1977. It was established to meet the practical needs of people who are not necessarily specialists on Japan but who wish to communicate effectively in Japanese. In 1992 the Association was awarded the Japan Foundation Special Prize.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Kodansha International (August 27, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 4770023324
• ISBN-13: 978-4770023322
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #360,994 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

• This item is part of The Japanese For Young People Series.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars someone who wants to learn Japanese, Get this series, August 23, 2000

By A Customer

I think that the Japanese for young people series is a very great series. I am learning Japanese and I really like these books. They are not just normal textbooks, with word after word after word. I WANT to sit down and study Japanese with these series, and I think that anyone will too. These books help you communicate in Japanese to other people very well for a student. The illustrations are very nice too.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars good value and fun to use, February 14, 2007

By	Sparks (United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Japanese For Young People II: Kanji Workbook (Bk.2) (Paperback)

This workbook is nicely laid out and has plenty of exercises (though for some quizzes you need to refer back to the text which I didnt buy). I have Tuttle's "Kanji and Kana Handbook" and was learning kanji from that but it was sooo boring so I ordered this to motivate myself. Since I already knew all 100+ JLPT4 kanji before this arrived, I'm using this to review stroke order: this workbook actually //shows// the strokes being drawn in succession instead of simply numbering them as most adult texts do. If I had bought this workbook earlier, it wouldve saved me a lot of time when learning those first 100 kanji. My main complaint: the artwork is downright ugly and they shouldve included more kanji and less quizzes.

On a tangent ... with this workbook as a stimulus and White Rabbit Press kanji flashcards, students should be able to recognize at least 25 kanji per day. Writing the characters over and over again (using correct stroke order) further cements them into memory. Really wish they would make a workbook for all the 1945 kanji required by the Ministry of Education.

5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I'm using AJALT's Japanese for young People, and I like it, August 23, 2000

By A Customer

I'm a student taking Japanese, and I really, really like these books. They're very interesting and in full color. The illustrations and everything about the book is great! I think anyone could learn Japanese through these books!