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[...]... actuaily used in Japanese communication These then are the specifications that we believe make Japanese for Busy People I1 the essential textbook not only for busy, working people who want to learn basic Japanese, but also for people who already know some Japanese but wish to review the phrases they know and reconfirm that they are using them in the correct situation What Japanese for Busy People II does... the Japanese for Busy People series Teachers and learners alike will find the following publications useful supplementary materials The opening dialogues, reading reviews, key sentences, and short dialogues for al1 twenty lessons in Japanese for Busy People 11 have been recorded in authentic, natura1 Japanese on four audio cassette tapes and three compact discs A workbook for Japanese for Busy People. ..About the Kana Version of Japanese for Busy People 1 1 How can Japanese for Busy People help you learn Japanese? The aim of Japanese for Busy People is to help you learn essential Japanese quickly as possible, so that you can actually comunicate with native speakers in their own language It has been prepared... self-study in combination with either the cassette tapes or compact discs (and indeed al1 other components in the Japanese for Busy People series) What does Japanese for Busy People II cover? Japanese for Busy People ZI carries on from where Book I leaves off, and as in the first volume, covers "survival Japanese. " This means al1 the language that you leam conversation patterns, sentence structures, grammatica1... editoria1 tasks ACKNOWLEDGMENTS for the Revised Edition of Japanese for Busy People 11 We would like to express our gratitude to the following people for preparing the new editions of Books I1 and 111: Mss Miyako Iwami, Shigeko Miyazaki, Masako Nagai, and Kimiko Yamamoto They were assisted by Ms Mikiko Ochiai ACKNOWLEDGMENTS for the Kana Version of Japanese for Busy People 11 We would like to express... sixty-minute audio cassette tapes of the workbook particularly helpful to self-study The Kana Version of Japanese for Busy People 111 is currently being prepared by an experienced group of instructors at AJALT This title will focus on further speech levels and styles xii L SERIES ACKNOWLEDGMENTS for Japanese for Busy People 11 Four AJALT teachers have written this textbook They are Ms Miyako Iwami, Ms Shigeko... environment Japanese for Busy People ZZ aims to help you learn Japanese by increasing your awareness of just what kind of language Japanese actually is through basic conversation patterns The Kana Version is a basic textbook for students who intend to master the native kana and kanji scripts early on in their studies This edition is designed so that it can be used by those attending a course in Japanese and for. .. following people: Mss Kimiko Yamamoto, Mikako Nakayama, Kyoko Tsurumi, and Toshiko Takarada ACKNOWLEDGMENTS x i Ii ri - - INTRODUCING THE CHARACTERS 323 %A?& ti'.:? i n G 3 7 7 3 ì (355i\) 7 7 3 > A L" k (365 i\ ) 7 ' 3 3 2 5 ~ i i2 & ~ 3 3 1 : i:caLi: I ~ t -7 3 9 2 5 ~ $ 3 , ABCO 1L:'L T-6, 93 92. ;- I ì X , [ i i : [ a L a > & I L i : I a i k f l e &i)3-6, 7 3 9 2 5 L i i j I J ; ì t / c -$?.-T.$,7 3 9 2. .. Unlike many other textbooks that overwhelm the beginner with an excessive and allto-often irrelevant amount of information, Japanese for Busy People 11 limits vocabulary and grammar patterns to what is essential for the most common situations in which nonnative speakers need to comunicate in Japanese Simplistic or even juvenile ways of expression that abound in most introductory texts have been abandoned... learning the Japanese language In total, there are over 50,000 kanji, but the number used in daily life is between about 2, 500 and 3,000 Many newspapers, magazines, and textbooks restrict themselves to the 1,945 kanji (called j6y6 kanji) designated by the Japanese government in 1981 for writing Japanese Japanese kanji have two types of readings: the on and the kun On readings are the Japanese versions . Version of Japanese for Busy People 11 How can Japanese for Busy People help you learn Japanese? The aim of Japanese for Busy People is to help you learn essential Japanese quickly as pos-. Japanese- English Glossary English -Japanese Glossary Index Fu11 Text with Kanji Preface for the Kana Version of Japanese for Busy People When Japanese for Busy People I was first published. ma, . k*L* .