Emiko Konomi Libros

This user-friendly Japanese language book is a comprehensive language course, pocket dictionary, and Japanese phrasebook in one. Easy Japanese is designed for Japanese language beginners who are planning a visit to Japan for business or travel, or are already living there and wish to learn spoken Japanese quickly and easily. This book introduces all the basics of the spoken language, with an emphasis on practical conversational Japanese and daily vocabulary. It enables you to begin efficiently communicating right away. Key features of Easy Japanese include: Structured, progressive lessons Focuses on daily communication Native-speaker audio recordings All dialogues are highly practical, authentic, and illustrated with manga illustrations for easy memorization. Useful notes and explanations about the Japanese writing system, pronunciations and accents, greetings and requests, sentence structure, vocabulary, verb conjugations, honorific forms, idiomatic expressions and Japanese etiquette dos and don'ts are provided throughout the book. A useful Japanese dictionary of commonly-used words and phrases is included at the back. The hours of native-speaker dialogue audio recordings, vocabulary, and exercises enable the reader to learn to pronounce Japanese words and phrases correctly.

This book provides a complete course for beginning students who want to master the first step in learning to read and write Japanese!With plentiful writing and reading practice, this workbook starts with the basic letters and works up to writing words and complete sentences. Divided into two parts, the first part presents the 46 main Hiragana in their full and contracted forms, with extensive writing spaces provided for writing practice. Recognition and pronunciation of the letters are reinforced through writing and listening exercises.In the second half of the book, students can apply their knowledge of Hiragana in a Writing Practice section that contains sentences related to contexts in which Hiragana words are often used, such as greetings, common expressions, place names and transportation. The exercises are graded in difficulty from Writing Drills (from copying to writing from memory) to Dictation Practice (connecting the sounds with the letters) to Writing Exercises (writing answers that fit the situations given).Unique features of this language workbook The Japanese writing system combines three types of hiragana, katakana, and kanji. Hiragana can be used to spell out the sounds of kanji Chinese character words--and if you don't know the kanji character you can use Hiragana instead (as young children do). It is also used for various grammatical-function words as well as verb and adjective endings.