Basic Japanese
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Learn to speak Japanese in 10 easy lessons—with manga illustrations, engaging exercises, and practical conversations!This bestselling Japanese textbook is a user-friendly guide for beginners designed for use either in a classroom or self-study. With an emphasis on daily communication and acquiring a working knowledge of simple, often-used Japanese sentences, you can attain basic fluency quickly!This new edition has been thoroughly updated and expanded to reflect the way the language is actually spoken in Japan today, including essential vocabulary and phrases for modern life—like talking about social media and the internet.
Engaging manga illustrations are paired with each dialogue, and a bidirectional dictionary is available in the back of the book. Ten structured lessons each present a simple four-step method for acquiring basic fluency quickly:Basic Sentences: Each lesson begins with a few simple sentences encompassing essential vocabulary and phrases Communication Notes: A detailed discussion of each sentence follows to assist you in understanding the underlying structure and how to form new sentences based on the same patternEveryday Conversations: Authentic dialogues with manga illustrations audio recordings show you how people communicate naturally in Japan today through simple, everyday interactionsEngaging Exercises: Several sets of easy exercises help reinforce your understanding of the key points presented in the lesson Online audio recordings by native speakers help with listening comprehension and pronunciationAll audio content is accessible on tuttlepublishing.
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- Tuttle Publishing
- 9781462919284
- 9784805313909
- ePub
- 0
- Samuel E. Martin; Eriko Sato
- English
- 2017-11-14
- 100
- 2
- 2
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- About This Book
- About the Japanese Language
- Word order and particles
- Postpositions
- Dropping pronouns
- Verb morphology
- Counters
- Honorifics
- Lesson 1: Sound It Out in Japanese!
- Basic Sentences
- Basic Vocabulary
- Structure Notes:
- 1.1. Pronunciation
- 1.2. Rhythm
- 1.3. Syllables
- 1.4. Voicing
- 1.5. Vowels
- 1.6. Vowels in sequence
- 1.7. Consonants
- 1.8. Flapped r
- 1.9. Syllabic nasal
- 1.10. Accent
- Lesson 2: What? Where? Who?
- Basic Sentences
- Basic Vocabulary
- Structure Notes:
- 2.1. Nouns and pronouns
- 2.2. Prenouns
- 2.3. Place words (relative location)
- 2.4. Adjectival nouns
- 2.5. Untranslated English words
- 2.6. Particles
- 2.7. は wa
- 2.8. が ga
- 2.9. か ka
- 2.10. の no
- 2.11. に ni
- 2.12. Words meaning ‘is’
- 2.13. Inflected words
- 2.14. Dropping subject nouns
- 2.15. Words of relative reference and question words
- 2.16. Words for ‘restaurant’
- 2.17. Words for ‘toilet’
- 2.18. 何 nani/nan ‘what’
- Lesson 3: Actions! Actions! Actions!
- Basic Sentences
- Basic Vocabulary
- Structure Notes:
- 3.1. Time words (relative time expressions)
- 3.2. Nouns with and without particles
- 3.3. Particles から kara, まで made, and へ e
- 3.4. Particle ね ne
- 3.5. Particle で de
- 3.6. Particle を o
- 3.7. Particle と to, meaning ‘with’ and ‘and’
- 3.8. Expressions for accompaniment
- 3.9 Verbs, polite moods
- 3.10. Use of the gerund (or te-form)
- 3.11. Use of the imperfect, perfect, and tentative moods
- 3.12. Negatives
- 3.13. Words for ‘work’
- 3.14. Verbal nouns (…する …suru)
- 3.15. Going in vehicles
- 3.16. ‘As soon as’
- Lesson 4: What’s the Weather Like?
- Basic Sentences
- Basic Vocabulary
- Structure Notes:
- 4.1. Adjectives
- 4.2. Plain and polite forms
- 4.3. Shapes of the plain forms
- 4.4. Learning the forms
- 4.5. Irregular verbs
- 4.6. Adjectives and the copula
- 4.7. Uses of the plain imperfect and perfect
- 4.8. Uses of the infinitive
- 4.9. The plain negative
- 4.10. Particle も mo
- 4.11. Expressing the time of the event ‘when …’ (…と …to, …時 …toki, …間 …aida)
- 4.12 Particle から kara meaning ‘since’ and ‘because’
- 4.13. Multiple particles
- 4.14. こと koto
- 4.15. つもり tsumori
- 4.16. More adverbs
- 4.17. More gerund expressions
- 4.18. Gerund (te-form) + いる iru
- 4.19. あそぶ asobu
- Lesson 5: Because It’s for Business
- Basic Sentences
- Basic Vocabulary
- Structure Notes:
- 5.1. Modifiers
- 5.2. Modifier clauses made with adjectives
- 5.3. Modifier clauses made with a copula
- 5.4. Modifier clauses made with adjectival nouns
- 5.5. The noun の no
- 5.6 …の (ん)です …no (n) desu
- 5.7. Verb + でしょう deshō
- 5.8. …かね …ka ne
- 5.9. ので no de
- 5.10. のに no ni
- 5.11. Plain negative …ない …nai
- 5.12. Negative infinitive …ず …zu
- 5.13. Imperfect negative + de …ないで …nai de
- 5.14. はず hazu
- 5.15. ところ tokoro
- 5.16. Verbs for leaving
- 5.17. …前に …mae ni and …後で …ato de
- 5.18. まで made and うち uchi
- 5.19. Verbs meaning ‘know’
- 5.20. Talking a language
- Lesson 6: Going Shopping Again?
- Basic Sentences
- Basic Vocabulary
- Structure Notes:
- 6.1. Numerals and numbers
- 6.2. Other quantity words
- 6.3. Use of numbers and quantity words
- 6.4. Primary and secondary numerals
- 6.5. Primary numerals
- 6.6. Arithmetic
- 6.7. Counters
- 6.8. Sound changes
- 6.9. Secondary numerals
- 6.10. Secondary counters
- 6.11. Counting people
- 6.12. Counting birds
- 6.13. Counting days
- 6.14. Names of the months
- 6.15. Giving dates
- 6.16. Telling time
- 6.17. -ぐらい -gurai/-ごろ -goro
- 6.18. Particle や ya
- 6.19. など nado, なんか nanka
- 6.20. Particle か ka meaning ‘or’
- 6.21. Particles は wa and を o with いかがですか ikaga desu ka
- 6.22. ひとつ hitotsu
- 6.23. Only: -だけ -dake and -しか -shika
- 6.24. Approximate numbers
- 6.25. Fractions
- 6.26 Percentage
- 6.27. Multiples
- 6.28. -ずつ zutsu
- 6.29. ごとに goto ni, おきに oki ni
- 6.30. Stores that end in 屋 ya
- Lesson 7: Have You Been in a Japanese House?
- Basic Sentences
- Basic Vocabulary
- Structure Notes:
- 7.1. Quotations
- 7.2. と 言う to iu
- 7.3. The plain tentative
- 7.4. Tentative (volitional) + とする to suru
- 7.5. Noun + として to shite/にして ni shite
- 7.6. Gerund (te-form) + みる miru
- 7.7. Desideratives
- 7.8. Alternative questions
- 7.9. よう yō
- 7.10. Quoting requests
- 7.11. Particle よ yo
- 7.12. 見える mieru and 聞こえる kikoeru
- 7.13. Prenouns + に ni
- 7.14. Gerund (te-form) + ある aru
- 7.15. The noun 方 hō
- 7.16. Comparisons
- 7.17. Questions with comparisons
- 7.18. 一番 ichiban
- 7.19. -目 me (ordinal numbers)
- 7.20. Particle ほど hodo
- 7.21. なるほど naruhodo
- 7.22. -ばかり -bakari
- 7.23. まま mama
- 7.24. 同じ onaji
- 7.25. Clothing
- Lesson 8: Let’s Keep in Touch!
- Basic Sentences
- Basic Vocabulary
- Structure Notes:
- 8.1. Interrogatives + も mo or か ka
- 8.2. Gerund + も mo
- 8.3. Interrogative + gerund + も mo
- 8.4. The provisional mood (-れば -reba)
- 8.5. Obligation
- 8.6. Permission
- 8.7. Denial of permission = prohibition
- 8.8. Denial of obligation
- 8.9. Obligation, prohibition, permission: summary
- 8.10. Conditionals (forms) -たら/-だら -tara/-dara
- 8.11. Conditionals (uses)
- 8.12. Asking for advice
- 8.13. ‘Had better’
- 8.14. …さえ…sae
- 8.15. The explicit use of に ni
- 8.16. …ば…ほど… …ba…hodo ‘the more… the more…’
- 8.17. …し …shi
- 8.18. Correlative compounds
- Lesson 9: Be Polite!
- Basic Sentences
- Basic Vocabulary
- Structure Notes:
- 9.1. Status words: humble, neutral, exalted
- 9.2. Kinship terms
- 9.3. Other nouns
- 9.4. Honorific prefixes
- 9.5. Honorific suffixes for people’s names
- 9.6. Verbs: the honorific infinitive
- 9.7. Special honorific verbs
- 9.8. 申し上げる mōshiageru
- 9.9. Inflection of slightly irregular exalted verbs
- 9.10. Special inflections of -ます -masu
- 9.11. Use of humble verbs
- 9.12. Adjectives and adjectival nouns
- 9.13. Formation of the adjective honorific infinitive
- 9.14. Summary of honorific predicates
- 9.15. ござる gozaru
- 9.16. いらっしゃる irassharu
- 9.17. おいで oide
- 9.18. Verbs for giving and receiving
- 9.19. Favors
- 9.20. Requests
- 9.21. Answers to negative questions
- 9.22. The specific plural
- Lesson 10: What Is Your Take on That?
- Basic Sentences
- Basic Vocabulary
- Structure Notes:
- 10.1. Hearsay そうです sō desu
- 10.2. Bound form -そう(な) -sō (na) ‘appearance’
- 10.3. …らしい …rashii
- 10.4. Expressions meaning ‘like’
- 10.5. The alternative -たり/-だり -tari/-dari
- 10.6. …ながら …nagara
- 10.7. ある aru with people
- 10.8. …ことにする/…ことになる …koto ni suru/…koto ni naru
- 10.9. …しまうshimau and …おくoku
- 10.10. …わけ …wake
- 10.11. Double negatives
- 10.12. …に違いない …ni chigai nai
- 10.13. について ni tsuite and によって ni yotte
- 10.14. Causative, passive, and causative passive verbs
- 10.15. Use of the causative
- 10.16. Uses of the passive
- 10.17. Use of the causative passive
- 10.18. The potential
- 10.19. かもしれない ka mo shirenai
- 10.20. かしら ka shira
- 10.21. Desiderative verbs …たがる …tagaru
- 10.22. …ものです …mono desu
- 10.23. The plain imperative
- Appendix I: Other Styles of Speech
- Appendix II: Accent Patterns
- Appendix III: Verb Forms (Selected)
- Dictionary
- Japanese—English
- English—Japanese
- Illustration and Photo Credits
- List of Culture Notes
- About Tuttle
- Copyright Page