Tuttle Japanese for Beginners: Mastering Conversational Japanese (Downloadable Audio Included) [With CD]

By Sachiko Toyozato

Book Overview

Japanese for Beginners is a straightforward learning guide which enables beginners to pick up a function knowledge of spoken Japanese very quickly and easily. Specifically designed to teach spoken... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 4805309067
• ISBN13: 9784805309063
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.5" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

informal Japanese explained at last

This is a valuable book hidden behind a very ordinary title. It's *not* yet another textbook telling you how to ask what time it is or where is the toilet. This book explains the casual and informal Japanese that is used in the real world -- the contractions and informal verb forms that you hear in Japanese TV shows, movies, and anime, as opposed to the formal and unrealistic Japanese that is presented in most textbooks.