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Japanese for Busy People II Paperback – March 15, 1995

Japanese Edition by Association for Japanese-Language Teaching (Author)

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THE REVISED EDITION OF JAPANESE FOR BUSY PEOPLE In the ten years since its publication, Japanese for Busy People has won acceptance worldwide as an effective, easy-to-understand textbook, either for classroom use or for independent study. In this new edition, numerous revisions and additions have been made, taking into account the comments and responses of both students and teachers who have been using the course.
In Book I, the revisions are directed at making the grammatical explanations easier to understand, while adding further explanations of points that students have difficulty with. Changes have also been made in favor of more natural practice sentences and dialogues. In addition, new appendices list the particles, interrogatives, and sentence patterns in the book, as well as the kanji introduced.
More fundamental revisions have been made to Book II, which has been expanded and divided into two volumes, Book II and Book Ill. The changes result in a smoother transition from Book I, make new grammatical elements clearer, and present more natural practice dialogues and exercise sentences.
THE JAPANESE FOR BUSY PEOPLE COURSE This concise course in natural Japanese is ideal for such students as businessmen whose aim is a working knowledge of the spoken language in everyday life. Survival Japanese for Adults,' as it might be called, gets to the heart of the language without recourse to childish or classroom-only Japanese.
Book II consists of twenty lessons in the same format as Book I, with dialogues, notes on grammar, and vocabulary, exercises and quizzes. The dialogues introduce the daily language and life of adult Japanese and, compared with Book I, conversations are more natural and include abbreviated expressions and suitable responses. In this revised Book II, kanji are introduced systematically, and alternate readings, stroke order and associated kanji are given for the characters appearing in each chapter.

Print length

288 pages
Language

English, Japanese
Publisher

Kodansha International
Publication date

March 15, 1995
Dimensions

7.25 x 1 x 10 inches
ISBN-10

4770018843
ISBN-13

978-4770018847
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Thomas W Dahl

Very good book.

Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2012

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I love the method the book uses.
You learn the language in a record-time with this book.

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Needlelady

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2014

Nice book for learning Japanese. Although you can study from the book on your own, I think you will get more out of it in a Japanese learning class.

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M. Edwards

Very useful

Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2010

I think this book is a very useful one. I have finished the first two in the series and am moving on to the third. It teaches the basic building blocks you need to understand kanji. Kanji understanding is really necessary in order to begin to gain an understanding of Japanese. I will have to respectfully disagree with the above reviewer. I thinkit is absolutely essential to read and write kana fluently before moving from beginner level. It is a time investment but it is well worth it! As long as you are aware that this book is kana only you should be ok. I do wish they gave more casual language and a little less focus on business but I suppose that is useful for those who work in Japan. Enjoy the book ^_^*

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Jim MacDowell

If you are only going to get one Japanese text, get this one

Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 1999

I discovered this book when it was used in a beginning Japanese language course at the local county college. I travel back and forth to Japan a lot and missed classes sometimes. I had the book with me most of the time, and almost everyone I talk to in Japan recognizes the book as a popular text for teaching Japanese to foreigners. What I like most about the book is that I didn't have any trouble keeping up with the occasional missed class, because the book is so self-explanatory. You can work through the lessons on your own and get almost as much out of it as you do from the class.

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Jrkis

totemo ii desu

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 28, 2014

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A prompt delivery and books were in good condition although looking used. Wish this series could be had on kindle. Just not pleased that each book was charged a postage even tho they were on the same order. Comprehensive learning tool if you want to self learn but also excellent used with a teacher.

D. J. Purton-smith

Wrong discription

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 3, 2013

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It says on the front "The most efective course of spoken everyday Japanese". It is not spoken Japanese at all, it is written Japanese, and is of no use to me what-so-ever. I am trying to learn Japanese, if I can't speak it how am I supposed to to be able to write it?

Jazzguy

Excellent resource for starting intermediate Japanese course

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 10, 2015

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Excellent resource for starting intermediate Japanese course. Natural follow up to book 1

Jean Mclucas

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 24, 2016

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Excellent item.