This beginner-level Japanese language textbook is designed for students who want to start conversing fast! While many textbooks begin with lessons on vocabulary and grammar, Nihongo Kore Dake! aims to develop your conversational skills with 17 brief lessons that are to be practiced with a Japanese language “volunteer.” You simply choose any chapter based on a real-life topic, such as Travel or TV Programs, and converse with your partner using the words, expressions, and practice problems over a period of 20 to 40 minutes. This textbook also contains many fun and useful illustrations to enhance your understanding and inspire conversation.

Structure

This book includes:

• 17 Practical Lessons (two-to-four pages each) using Japanese kana and English romaji:

1. I’m Hungry
2. My Profile
3. A Day of Mine
4. I Traveled
5. My Town
6. A Year of Mine / My Life
7. If I Had Money
8. My Favorite Things
9. How Are You?
10. My Home
11. What Do You Drink?
12. My Dear One
13. TV Programs
14. That Looks Good!
15. Shopping
16. I Was Surprised!
17. My Room

• A six-page Word Table listing every word from the textbook in Japanese kana and English romaji, and its chapters of appearance

• A removable folding language board containing key grammar points, Japanese kana characters and their pronunciation, question words, numbers, dates and time, verb conjugations, and more

• Link to video resources

Each lesson chapter contains: 

• Brief dialogues between two speakers on the lesson topic
• A word or phrase to spark conversation in the “Chat Toolbox”
• “New Words” section with illustrations
• “Talking Tips” for Japanese volunteers to enhance conversations
• “Let’s Try It!” review practice section
• “Let’s Talk!” conversation practice
• “Kore Dake!” fill-in-the-blanks conversation practice focused on sentence structure

Nihongo Kore Dake! is recommended if you are just beginning to learn Japanese and want to begin having conversations immediately.

 

About this volume:

Original Title: にほんごこれだけ!

96 Pages

Paperback

ISBN: 978-4904595060

Publishing date: May 21, 2010

Language: Japanese, English