Japanese for Young People III: Student Book (Japanese for Young People Series) (Bk.3) [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 third and final 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 Compact Discs 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: 200 pages
• Publisher: Kodansha International (June 19, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 4770024959
• ISBN-13: 978-4770024954
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 7.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #347,215 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This was amazing!, November 17, 2004

By	S. Norris (Ohio, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This series is an amazing and overall outstanding approach to learning Japanese. I ordered it last summer and was done with the first book in a week. I am now in school, but have had enough time to finish the second and am currently on this one. This book's use of kana and kanji with furigana (kana under the kanji for pronunciation) are extremely effective with reading and learning to write. This book also is great with grammar and helps teach a lot of vocabulary. For anyone that has learned another foreign language and understands it (as I know Spanish, German, and English), this is a breeze; I would also reccomend this to new learners as well. This book is fun and easy to learn at any level. I highly reccomend this book to anyone that is interested in learning or even getting a better command of the Japanese.

1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars not bad but ..., March 5, 2007

By	Sparks (United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Japanese for Young People III: Kanji Workbook (Japanese for Young People Series) (Bk.3) (Paperback)

it could be so much better. Again as in book II, the artwork is downright ugly and there are too many quizzes and not enough kanji. The kanji were introduced at too leisurely a pace IMO. To be fair, even though I knew all JLPT4 kanji, I did learn new stuff from this workbook --- but it's not something I want or need to keep. I xeroxed the quizzes and will donate this to charity for a tax writeoff.