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Colloquial Japanese

The Complete Course for Beginners, 2nd Edition

By H.D.B. Clarke, Motoko Hamamura

Published December 12th 2002 by Routledge – 392 pages

Series: Colloquial Series

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Description

Now in its second edition, this popular beginners course has been completely rewritten to make learning Japanese as easy as possible. Lively dialogues cover business situations as well as social and everyday language and the text includes helpful cultural notes.

Japanese script (kanji, katakana and hiragana) is gradually introduced, with romanization throughout for those wishing to concentrate on the spoken language. Other features include:

  • exercises with answer key
  • extensive vocabulary lists in Japanese script and romanization
  • index of kanji (with on and kun readings).

Listen to Sample Audio For The Course:

If you’re thinking about buying this course, why not listen to the audio tracks below for a taster?

These are samples from the audio CD, to accompany this paperback, or included in our great value Colloquial Pack.

Unit 1, Dialogue 1 A

Unit 1, Dialogue 1 B