This intermediate reader, designed especially for high school students, contains a complete teacher's guide, glossary, and vocabulary notes and was prepared under the auspices of the Center for Improvement of Teaching of Japanese Language and Culture in High School, part of the University High School of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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 Hiragana for Beginners makes learning hiragana fast and effective by using memorable picture mnemonics, along with clear explanations, examples and lots of fun exercises. Picture mnemonics enhance memory by associating the shape and sound of each hiragana character with combinations of images and English words already familiar to students. Includes a set of 46 flashcards.

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.

This workbook introduces 60 Japanese particles and their 188 basic functions in order of frequency of usage. Each function is illustrated with example sentences, and exercises are presented every few lessons to allow users to test their understanding, writing directly in the workbook and checking their work against the answers provided.

Japanese Street Slang is the first and only expose of the rough and ready, raw and down-dirty street language as it is used in Japan today. Here's how they really speak: he hustlers and high rollers, the teens and Tokyo yuppies, the gangsters and their ladies of the night. Witty mini-essays trace the fascinating origins of many expressions and the rollicking example sentences reveal just how and where they may be heard.

Japanese Verbs at a Glance is unique in its concise coverage of Japanese verbs from four points of view: conjugation, usage, compound verbs, and idiomatic expressions. This diversity makes the book a useful tool to students at both beginning and intermediate levels.

"Survival Japanese for Adults," as the book might be called, gets to the heart of the language without recourse to childish or classroom-only Japanese. To reduce the burden on busy learners, vocabulary and grammar heve been limited to about a third of that typically introduced in beginner courses, and emphasis is given to words and sentence patterns that the learner will find immediately useful.

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.

"Survival Japanese for Adults," as the book might be called, gets to the heart of the language without recourse to childish or classroom-only Japanese. To reduce the burden on busy learners, vocabulary and grammar heve been limited to about a third of that typically introduced in beginner courses, and emphasis is given to words and sentence patterns that the learner will find immediately useful. Includes CD.

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.