Learning Japanese
Learn to Speak, Read and Write Japanese Quickly! (Free Online Audio Recordings & Printable Flash Cards)
Will be published approx. on 9. June 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-4-8053-1754-9 (ISBN)
Description
Everything you need to learn Japanese quickly!
Learning Japanese is a complete language learning package designed for people who want to learn to communicate in Japanese quickly and easily-whether on your own or with a teacher. The book introduces all the basics of the language including pronunciation, vocabulary and sentence patterns-so you can engage in simple conversations right from the start!
Useful explanations of the Japanese script, greetings and requests, verb conjugations, honorific forms and etiquette dos and don'ts are all included. A dictionary of commonly-used words and phrases is provided at the back.
The carefully-constructed lessons in this book all relate to useful everyday topics such as:
Introducing yourself and meeting people
Numbers, counting money and telling time
Going to a restaurant and ordering food
Talking about your family, hobbies and personal interests
Shopping, getting around and asking directions
Dealing with phones and IT issues
Hours of free native-speaker online audio recordings accompany the dialogues, vocabulary and exercises-enabling you to practice pronouncing and understanding all the Japanese words and sentences! Free downloadable flashcards available online are also a great help in memorizing the vocabulary and phrases, and memorable manga-style comic strips provide helpful visual prompts for the dialogues.
This ultimate language has everything you need-at a fraction of the price of expensive language kits!
Learning Japanese is a complete language learning package designed for people who want to learn to communicate in Japanese quickly and easily-whether on your own or with a teacher. The book introduces all the basics of the language including pronunciation, vocabulary and sentence patterns-so you can engage in simple conversations right from the start!
Useful explanations of the Japanese script, greetings and requests, verb conjugations, honorific forms and etiquette dos and don'ts are all included. A dictionary of commonly-used words and phrases is provided at the back.
The carefully-constructed lessons in this book all relate to useful everyday topics such as:
Introducing yourself and meeting people
Numbers, counting money and telling time
Going to a restaurant and ordering food
Talking about your family, hobbies and personal interests
Shopping, getting around and asking directions
Dealing with phones and IT issues
Hours of free native-speaker online audio recordings accompany the dialogues, vocabulary and exercises-enabling you to practice pronouncing and understanding all the Japanese words and sentences! Free downloadable flashcards available online are also a great help in memorizing the vocabulary and phrases, and memorable manga-style comic strips provide helpful visual prompts for the dialogues.
This ultimate language has everything you need-at a fraction of the price of expensive language kits!
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Boston
United States
Edition type
Bilingual edition
Illustrations
with 10 full-page manga stories; 25 b&w photos; downloadable Audio Recordings; printable flash cards
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
544 gr
ISBN-13
978-4-8053-1754-9 (9784805317549)
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Emiko Konomi
Learning Japanese
Learn to Speak, Read and Write Japanese Quickly! (Free Online Audio Recordings & Printable Flash Cards)
E-Book
03/2026
Tuttle Publishing
€11.49
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Emiko Konomi received her PhD from Cornell and taught Japanese language at Portland State University at all levels for many years. She also trained Japanese-language instructors at various teacher-training programs in the U.S. Her passionate teaching style and dedication earned her the John Eliot Allen Outstanding Teaching Award in 2011 and 2015. She is the author of Reading and Writing Japanese Hiragana and Reading and Writing Japanese Katakana.