Let's Study Japanese. Jun Maeda

      

      Let’s

       Study

       Japanese

      Let’s

       Study

       Japanese

      by JUN MAEDA

      TUTTLE PUBLISHING

       Boston • Rutland, Vermont • Tokyo

      Published by Tuttle Publishing, an imprint of Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd.

      Copyright in Japan, 1965 by Charles E. Tuttle Publishing Co. Inc.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without prior written permission from the publisher.

      Library of Congress Catalog No. 64-24949

       ISBN 0-8048-0362-5

       ISBN 978-1-4629-1743-3 (ebook)

       First edition, 1965

      Printed in Singapore

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      Table of Contents

       Foreword

       Guide to Pronunciation

       Basic Japanese Sounds

       Lesson 1: What Is This?

       Lesson 2: Where Are You Going?

       Lesson 3: Can You Do It?

       Lesson 4: Do You Have It?

       Lesson 5: Do You Like It?

       Lesson 6: Please and Thank You

       Lesson 7: Numbers

       Lesson 8: What Time Is It?

       Lesson 9: What Day Is Today?

       Lesson 10: Seasons and Months

       Lesson 11: Greetings and Everyday Expressions

       Lesson 12: What Are You?

       Lesson 13: Food

       Lesson 14: How Is the Weather?

       Lesson 15 : Review

       Lesson 16: Let’s Go Shopping

       Lesson 17: How Are You?

       Lesson 18: Parts of the Body

       Lesson 19: You and I, Your and My

       Lesson 20: This and That

       Lesson 21: Adjectives

       Lesson 22: Adjectives and Adverbs

       Lesson 23: Many and Much, Little and Few

       Lesson 24: Where Is It?

       Lesson 25: Let’s Call on the Telephone

       Lesson 26: A Game and a Song

       Vocabulary

      Foreword

      In this jet age, one can reach any part of the world within a day or two. It is wise for one to have some knowledge of the language of the country which he visits in order to make his trip enjoyable and worthwhile through communicating with the native people and understanding their culture.

      Especially for beginners who intend to study the Japanese language, this book is written in a clear and simple yet versatile method. With approximately 350 words and examples of practical conversational usage, one may acquire a knowledge of the fundamental Japanese language from this book, so that he can express himself in simple Japanese sentences.

      This book is provided with several exercises for each lesson. Also, to get acquainted with the Japanese atmosphere, the student may enjoy the illustrations which the author has provided as a visual aid. Complicated grammatical explanations are omitted in this workbook, for detailed explanations may sometimes discourage students from learning the Japanese language. Only the essential key points in pronunciation and grammar are given, and the phrases and the sentences are repeatedly presented in each lesson, so that the student