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Fully Conjugated in all the forms Transliterated into the Roman alphabet English-to-Japanese verb index An index of Japanese verbs by their gerund form Formality and deference levels in Japanese Quizzes and drills in verb usage with answers an...

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This book presents a selection of carefully graded lessons in modern written Japanese at the introductory, elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels. The seventy-five explanatory lessons of Book One in...

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All students of Japanese, whether they have studied physics or not, know the word "particle," and they realize that particles, like English prepositions, require a special effort to master. Thus the high evaluation of the previous edition ...

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What is "Basic Japanese"? This book presents some very basic words and phrases along with some that are not usually considered "basic" at all. In fact, some of the material in this book is not typically presented until the student...

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Basic Japanese Through Comics is not intended as a textbook, but rather as an entertaining supplement to a more structured study of Japanese. The 24 "lessons" in this book are a compilation of the Basic Japanese column from Mangajin magazi...

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Get a head start on learning Japanese!Do you want an step-by-step introduction to reading and writing Japanese?Are you learning Japanese?Are you planning a trip or vacation?Beginner's Japanese Script will help you get used to reading and writing Japa...

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Compact, yet comprehensive, these new dictionaries from Berlitz are ideal for the student, business person, and traveler. Completely up-to-date with current words, idioms, and expressions. Two-way bilingual dictionary 40,000 entries on 672 pages Th...

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Essential Japanese features a wide range of exercises and activities to help you learn and use Japanese with ease and confidence. Inside this book, you will find: Dialogues that highlight Japanese as it's really spoken Basic grammar presented throu...

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Business Kanji is for students of the Japanese language with a special interest in business, finance, and economics. Appropriate for self-study or classroom use, it teaches more than 1,700 kanji frequently...

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Learn 20 words in Japanese! The accompanying audio CD contains narration, pronunciations of new words, sound effects, and fully orchestrated original music composed, arranged, and performed by "Slangman" David Burke. Listen to Narration an...

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The Complete Japanese Adjective Guide is a simple approach to understanding Japanese grammar and syntax, methodically leading students through intricacies of adjective use. Exercises build mastery and confidence as grammar topics are introduced. Re...

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Perfect for desktop or classroom reference, Martin's Concise Japanese Dictionary is the most up-to-date and comprehensive dictionary of its size on the market. Useful features of the dictionary include the following: over 18,000 entries both Engli...

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There are many things that make learning to read Japanese difficult, and all of them have to do with kanji. It has been suggested that kanji be banned from use, which might prove awkward considering that they have been a part of the language for over...

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What student of the Japanese language has not grappled with the amazing diversity and tantalizingly elusive nuances of its Idioms? What, for instance, is the difference between ude o kau and ude o kasu? What to make of aizuchi o utsu or saba o yomu? ...

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What student of the Japanese language has not grappled with the amazing diversity and tantalizingly elusive nuances of its Idioms? What, for instance, is the difference between ude o kau and ude o kasu? What to make of aizuchi o utsu or saba o yomu? ...

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47 Crossword Puzzles to Learn and Practice Japanese Vocabulary and Grammar Easy Japanese Crossword Puzzles offers beginning students of Japanese-and those who are brushing up-an entertaining, effective way to expand their knowledge of the Japanese l...

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47 Crossword Puzzles to Learn and Practice Japanese Vocabulary and Grammar Easy Japanese Crossword Puzzles offers beginning students of Japanese-and those who are brushing up-an entertaining, effective way to expand their knowledge of the Japanese l...

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This practical workbook is for all students of Japanese who want to learn the basic phonetic writing systems in use by the Japanese. This workbook is a self contained course, which can be used both for independent study or in the classroom. It can al...

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The First Thousand words in Japanese provides a wealth of vocabulary-building opportunities for young learners of Japanese, and also for anyone who want the stimulus of learning with pictures. Devised to ...

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Includes the following useful features: Systematic and comprehensive coverage of the two Kana systems needed to read and write Japanese Ample provision for practice, review...

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This handy reference book is designed as an essential companion to the study of written Japanese, and will help you achieve fluency in reading and writing the language in its everyday style. This book is divided into two sections: The first section ...

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The main aim of this book is to help students of the Japanese language overcome the obstacle presented by characters - or kanji, to use the Japanese term. Without a sound knowledge of kanji it is impossible to acquire a proper command of the language...

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An easy-to-understand, compact guide to Japanese grammar, this handy book alphabetically introduces the most essential grammatical function words from ageru to zenzen. Each entry is clearly explained in layman's terms, and all possible usage is illu...

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Japanese Hiragana for Beginners makes learning of hiragana fast and effective by using memorable picture mnemonics, along with clear explanations, examples and lots of fun exercises - a method that has helped thousands of students learn hiragana succ...

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Be in the KNOW before you go!Doing business across borders is very different from doing business across town - subtle and not-so-subtle differences in attitudes and etiquette play a big role.Did you Know?Bowing in Japan isn't just bending at the wais...

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Instant Japanese allows you to quickly and easily meet people, go shopping, ride the subway, ask for directions, order food and drinks, and much more! This thoroughly revised second edition of Boye Lafayette De Mente's classic, bestselling phrase boo...

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From a Western perspective, the Japanese have an incomprehensible Jekyll-and-Hyde persona - cute, quaint and seductive one moment and outright savage the next. The fastest way to understand the traditional Japanese mindset is through their cultural c...

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The Japanese Colloquial Bible is the most recent Japanese translation of the Christian Bible, completed in 1987, and is now the most widely used Japanese Bible, by both Catholics and Protestants. This book is entirely in Japanese. No English. Flexcov...

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Say sayonara to your fears of speaking Japanese! Interested in learning to speak Japanese but feel intimidated by the complex characters and pronunciations? No need to worry! Even if your only experience is ordering sushi, Japanese Demystified will h...

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At last. A book of useful Japanese, offering the language you need to handle a wide variety of situations. Through hundreds of example sentences and dialogues, you'll learn what to say and do when:Setting up a Business AppointmentOpening a Bank Accou...

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Thousands of people need to communicate in Japanese for practical reasons, but don't have the time or opportunity to devote the many years it takes to speak formal Japanese correctly. Japanese for Beginners is a sensible learning tool enabling begin...

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For quick mastery of hiragana and katakana, this concise text provides grids for writing practice, reading and writing exercises. An optional audio tape (sold separately) aids in pronunciation. Previously published as Kana for Busy People ....

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Your friendly guide to understanding Japanese - quickly and easily! Whether you're a student, a traveler, or you just want to pick up basic Japanese, this unintimidating guide will help you sta...

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Master the Japanese language by learning the idiomatic expressions used everyday by the Japanese. This volume contains over 2000 Japanese idioms arranged under their key words in alphabetical order, wi...

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This fun bilingual box of Flash Cards features art from the popular Berlitz Adventures with Nicholas series. It's sure to have children speaking the words in a flash. 50 Flash Cards with colorful, visual, and engaging illustrations of everyday words...

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Japanese Made Easy is an accessible and thorough guide that has you using simple, everyday Japanese words and phrases within a few hours. This book has been thoroughly revised to help beginners build practical language skills quickly and easily. Jap...

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Particles are an essential component of the Japanese language, and a facility with their use is essential for a mastery of both spoken and written forms. This new workbook will help students acquire that facility. It introduces 60 particles and thei...

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Speakers of standard Japanese who venture off the beaten track quickly realize there is more to the Japanese language than what they have learned in the classrooms or even on the streets. Japanese Slang Uncensored reveals in vivid detail the richness...

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This self-study text offers a breakthrough approach for beginning learners of Japanese, as well as an indispensable reference for intermediate students. The unique study method in Japanese Step By Step teaches how to construct Japanese sentences, fro...

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Approximately 300 most frequently used verbs are presented, one per page, arranged alphabetically, and fully conjugated. This book is similar to 501 Japanese Verbs, but is smaller in page size (3 5/8" x 6...

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This set of 1,000 cards presents 1,000 key Japanese words in both the romanized form and the Japanese Kana syllabary, plus word derivatives, phrases, and sentences with common grammatical patterns appropriate for the beginning and intermediate levels...

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The Most In-depth, Innovative, and Authoritative Japanese-English Character Dictionary Available NTC's New Japanese-English Character Dictionary is based on a totally new system-not found in any other dictionary. The SKIP system allows you to look u...

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This Just Listen 'n Learn Language Book is a complete and integrated mini-course to teach you to speak, read, and understand Japanese quickly and with real confidence. Just Listen 'n Learn Japanese has basic communication as its primary objective-ex...

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Kanji and Kana is a uniquely comprehensive, systematized guide to the reading and writing of Japanese. Suitable for both classroom and independent study, it is designed to help the student achieve fluency quickly in all 1,945 Joyo Kanji, as well as t...

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A self-study workbook for learning Japanese Characters. Features over 750 of the most commonly used characters Includes hiragana and katakana Provides ample space for writing practice Gives readings, meanings, compounds, & stroke order This boo...

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This book continues the systematic approach to learning how to write Japanese characters that was introduced in Book 1. With 1,166 entries, this workbook completes the study of all 1, 945 characters prescr...

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This book, Kanji ABC, is a totally new approach to learning joyo kanji, the 1,945 characters recommended for everyday use by the Japanese government. The authors have developed a strategies for systematizing and facilitating the learning process, and...

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Flashcards are an excellent tool for learning and reviewing Japanese kanji characters quickly and efficiently. These carefully designed cards present the first 440 kanji approved by the Ministry of Educ...

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Portable and easy-to-use, flashcards are effective tools for learning Japanese kanji characters. Kanji Cards 2 takes over where Kanji Cards 1 leaves off by presenting the second 566 kanji approved by Ja...

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This specially priced collection includes the first three books in Manga University's unique Japanese-language learning series--Kana de Manga and Kanji de Manga and Kanji de Manga Vol 2--packaged in a handy slipcase. Makes a great gift for manga fans...

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This brand-new series from Manga University uses original comic artwork to teach readers how to identify and write the most common Japanese kanji ideographs. Volume 1 introduces 80 basic kanji that all Japanese schoolchildren are required to learn be...

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The series continues with another fun-filled volume packed with original manga illustration to help readers instantly recognize and write the most essential kanji characters in the Japanese language -- enough to get by on a trip to Japan, decipher ne...

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The illustrated Kanji de Manga series moves forward with an all-new selection of 80 kanji geared toward intermediate learners of the language. Upon completion of this and the previous three volumes, students will have learned a total of 320 kanji, en...

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Another 80 kanji are featured in the fifth volume of Manga University's flagship series. Upon completion of this and the previous four volumes, students will have learned a total of 400 kanji, enough to prepare them for the advanced levels of the off...

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The Kanji Dictionary makes the Japanese written language more accessible than ever before. This is the only kanji dictionary of its kind to employ a revolutionary multiple-reference compound system. Every kanji compound, a word or phrase made up of t...

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This book, Kanji Fast Finder, is a totally new study aid that lets you find Japanese kanji quickly and intuitively from their appearance alone, without knowing their reading, radical or stroke count, and without learning yet another "system.&quo...

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Learn Kanji through pictures. Japanese written characters, or kanji, have their origin in a picture-language developed in ancient China. Over time this language evolved into stylized abstract forms that are hard to memorize. In Kanji Pict-O-Graphix ...

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Learn kanji without pain! Kanji Power helps students of Japanese to easily master the reading and writing of 240 of the most important kanji. Explanations of the meaning of each kanji are given along with derivations, and ample space for writing pr...

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With Kanji-A-Day Practice Pad you too can master 365 essential kanji in just minutes a day! Each sheet introduces a new kanji in bold, easy-to-read type, with readings, meanings, stroke order, and two comp...

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A comprehensive, communicative, and practical guide to using Japanese, Kodansha's Furigana Japanese Dictionary is an invaluable tool for anyone with an interest in the Japanese language. It has been edited with the needs of English-speaking users in ...

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This Learner's Kanji Dictionary is a concise edition of the Highly-Acclaimed Kanji Dictionary by Mark Spahn and Wolfgang Hadamitzky.Every Kanji entry appears in an extra-large form, with its strokes labeled in order. Handwritten and variant forms of ...

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There are three types of Japanese script—katakana, hiragana, and kanji. It is possible to read Japanese knowing only a limited number of kanji, but it is not possible with only a limited number of katakana or hiragana—one must know all of...

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Unlike other word books for children, the Let's Learn Japanese Picture Dictionary has been created by leading language educators with a carefully controlled vocabulary of the words most commonly taught ...

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Everyone agrees that it is possible to learn to speak Japanese in a reasonable amount of time, but no one has ever said that about reading and writing it. It is widely held that spoken and written Japanese require separate efforts by the student, as ...

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There are three types of Japanese script—katakana, hiragana, and kanji. It is possible to read Japanese knowing only a limited number of kanji, but it is not possible with only a limited number of katakana or hiragana—one must know all of...

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Learn to speak the colloquial language the Japanese really use with Making Out in Japanese. This best-selling phrase book has now been completely revised to be even more helpful as a guide to the modern Japanese spoken in everyday interactions-but st...

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This summary of Japanese grammar and usage covers parts of speech, sentence structure, verb forms, and common word patterns in written and spoken Japanese. At the beginning you will find an introductory diagnostic test with answers. The end of the b...

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Learn to speak the colloquial language the Japanese really use with More Making Out in Japanese. This best-selling phrase book has now been completely revised to be even more helpful as a guide to the modern Japanese spoken in everyday interactions-b...

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The Japanese are extraordinarily polite, soft-spoken, and tend toward vagueness and evasiveness in their speech and manner. Right? Wrong? Well, not always. Japanese can be just as explicit, just as cutting, vicious, vile, and downright vulgar as anyo...

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Initially written for the tourist visiting Japan, Practical Japanese is actually a very handy reference for anyone interested in quickly acquiring a working knowledge of spoken Japanese. With approximately 350 essential words and 130 pages of practi...

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Reliable, Detailed, and Up-to-Date More than 50,000 entries Two sections, JAPANESE-ENGLISH & ENGLISH-jAPANESE Japanese terms shown in Romanized JAPANESE & standard JAPANESE characters Hundreds of new words, including EIZU (AIDS) & NYURY...

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Far from being a complex and mysterious script, Japanese writing is actually a simple and fascinating pictographic system, easily understood and readily mastered. The Japanese language need no longer baffle visitors to Japan. With the new approach i...

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Japanese characters, called kanji, often intimidate potential students of the language with their complex and mysterious appearance. Read Japanese Today is a comprehensible and storylike approach to an often difficult language. Intended for people o...

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Students love Schaum's Outlines because they produce results. Each year, hundreds of thousands of students improve their test scores and final grades with these indispensable study guides. OVER 30 MILLI...

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Learn Spoken Japanese Quickly and Efficiently Through twenty carefully thought-out lessons and two review chapters, Speak Japanese Today will teach you simple, correct Japanese most useful for everyday . situations. Each lesson familiarizes you wi...

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This handy book provides all the vocabulary and phrases you need for your first day in Japan. Revised and updated with Japanese syllabaric script and standard romanji transcription, this edition contains a unique phonetic system that will encourage y...

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This is a complete course in understanding and speaking Japanese. If you have never learned Japanese before, or your Japanese needs brushing up, Teach Yourself Japanese will give you a thorough groundin...

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The key to Japanese is knowing how to use verbs, and no other book about Japanese verbs contains as much useful information as The Complete Japanese Verb Guide. Compiled and edited with the needs of the st...

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Language was for centuries used as a barrier to prevent the non-Japanese from learning about the way Japanese society works. Now, by examining the underlying meaning of more than 200 key words and expressions, this comprehensive guide provides a uniq...

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Get ready for a whole new approach to language history! This concise and brilliant book offers demystifying overviews of one of Asia's most popular languages. In a novel approach to language theory, this book shows the inner mechanics of Asian langua...

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This handy book details kanji combinations for some 300 of the given names and includes a comprehensive section of "building blocks" for rendering romanized syllables into Japanese. Write Your Name in Kanji makes it easy to translate a Wes...

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Writing practice is the most effective method of mastering written Japanese, and the large open format of this workbook is designed to invite the student to pick up a pencil and start writing.Written Japanese comprises two phonetic syllabaries, hirag...

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Writing practice is the most effective method of mastering written Japanese, and the large, open format of this workbook is designed to invite the student to pick up a pencil and start writing. Written Japanese comprises two phonetic syllabaries, hi...

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This beginner's Quick and Easy Guide is specifically designed to help learners overcome one of the major obstacles to learning Japanese: reading the Japanese script. Whether you are learning on your own or...

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