Learning Japanese

Learn slang, black humor and the uniquely Japanese comedic rhythm in Yoshio Kawashima's classic Gloom Party, a shorts collection from Shonen Champion Comics. Every four frame strip stands alone, pacing the reader at one lesson per page, one punch line at a time. Features an ensemble cast of colorful recurring characters and their wild adventures.

The New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary has over 70,000 entries, with over 1,200 characters and modernized definitions added in this new edition, keeping pace with the evolution of Japanese. Its cross-references include the Japan Industrial Standard code number for each main-entry character, as well as the main-entry character's reference number in Morohashi's Dai Kanwa Jiten.

Japanese for All Occasions is an introduction to Japanese speech styles, or the ways in which Japanese speakers adjust their words depending on who they are talking to. In this unique volume, veteran teacher Taeko Kamiya shows how similar ideas are expressed in casual, polite, honorific, and humble styles.

Japanese Kanji Power helps beginning and intermediate Japanese language learners to master the reading and writing of 464 of the most important kanji. The presentation of each kanji incorporates many key features, such as sample sentences that introduce each kanji in context; a list of frequently-used compounds and phrases; stroke count and a stroke-order diagram; and numerous exercises and frequent reviews.

Picture mnemonics are a proven tool in the world of language learning. Full of useful writing tips, rules that allow students to write all Japanese, sounds, and exercises such as word searches, crossword puzzles, fill in the blanks, timed recognition quizzes and more, this book is an excellent tool to increase knowledge of the Japanese language. Includes a set of 46 flashcards.

From ai ("love") to zukkyu! ("heart attack!"), Japanese Street Slang details the roughest and rawest street language as it's used in Japan today. Here's how the Japanese really speak: the hustlers and high-rollers, the anime otaku teens and Tokyo yuppies, the gangsters and their ladies of the night. This is the guide to the kinkiest sex talk, drug slang, criminal lingo, popular text-messaging abbreviations, and more.

In the 22 years since its publication, Japanese for Busy People has won acclaim worldwide as an effective, easy-to-understand textbook, either for classroom use or for independent study. Now, in its first revision in more than a decade, the series is being redesigned, updated, and consolidated to meet the needs of today's students and businesspeople who want to learn natural, spoken Japanese as effectively as possible in a limited amount of time.

This workbook has been specially designed for those students wishing to learn the two basic Japanese scripts, hiragana and katakana, as efficiently and painlessly as possible. It teaches not only reading and writing but also - with the aid of an included CD - listening and pronunciation.

In the 22 years since its publication, Japanese for Busy People has won acclaim worldwide as an effective, easy-to-understand textbook, either for classroom use or for independent study. Now, in its first revision in more than a decade, the series is being redesigned, updated, and consolidated to meet the needs of today's students and businesspeople who want to learn natural, spoken Japanese as effectively as possible in a limited amount of time.

This workbook has been designed for those students who are not yet comfortable conversing in Japanese and wish to have more practice. "Drills for Oral Fluency," as it might be called, provides ample speaking and listening practice in the form of illustrated exercises that call on learners to construct dialogues and role-play in Japanese.

Picking up where Japanese for Busy People I left off, the text goes beyond survival Japanese, turning to the basics of Japanese syntax. Topics covered include plain forms of verbs and adjectives; compound sentences; modifying, terminal ("when"), and conditional ("if") clauses; clauses; potential and volitional forms; and direct and indirect quotation.

In the 22 years since its publication, Japanese for Busy People has won acclaim worldwide as an effective, easy-to-understand textbook, either for classroom use or for independent study. Now, in its first revision in more than a decade, the series is being redesigned, updated, and consolidated to meet the needs of today's students and businesspeople who want to learn natural, spoken Japanese as effectively as possible in a limited amount of time.