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Japanese Demystified Eriko Sato

Japanese Demystified By Eriko Sato

Japanese Demystified by Eriko Sato


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Provides you with a friendly, non-intimidating method that takes the confusion out of learning the language, walking you step by step through the fundamentals and moving on to more advanced topics. This title features a comprehensive final exam at the end of the book that gives you instant feedback on new language skills.

Japanese Demystified Summary

Japanese Demystified by Eriko Sato

This easy-to-use guide from the popular. Demystified series takes the mystery and menace out of learning Japanese by walking readers step-by-step through the fundamentals of the language. Each chapter concludes with a self-test that allows readers to track their progress and a comprehensive final exam at the end of the book gives instant feedback on new language skills.

Japanese Demystified lets readers work at their own pace and arms them with the essentials of the language in a friendly and un-intimidating format.

The Japanese in the book is presented in both Japanese characters (hiragana, katagana, and kanji) and phonetic translation for easy pronunciation

About Eriko Sato

Eriko Sato, Ph.D., is the executive director of the Japan Center and the founding director of the Pre-College Japanese Language Program at The University of New York at Stony Brook. She is the author of Contemporary Japanese and Japanese For Dummies.

Table of Contents

AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPART 1 IDENTIFYING PEOPLE AND THINGS
Chapter 1
Pronouncing and Writing Japanese Words
Basic Japanese Sounds and Romaji
The Japanese Writing Systems
Familiar Japanese Words

Chapter 2
Identifying People and Things
Referring to People
Identifying People and Things
Using Demonstratives
Using Everyday Phrases

Chapter 3
Asking Questions
The Question Particle ka
Asking Who is it?
Asking What is it?
Asking Where is it?
The Japanese-Speaking World

Chapter 4
Describing People and Things
Some Useful Adjectives
Asking How is it?
Creating a Modifier Using a Noun and the Particle no
Using Numbers 1-10

Chapter 5
Expressing Existence and Location
The Verbs imasu and arimasu
Expressing What Exists
Expressing What You Have
Expressing the Location of People and Things
Using Numbers 11-99

TEST AFTER PART 1
PART 2 TALKING ABOUT ACTIONS
Chapter 6
Expressing Coming and Going
Japanese Verb Forms
Verbs of Coming and Going
Making Suggestions and Invitations
Some Useful Particles
Using Numbers 100-99,999

Chapter 7
Expressing What You Do
Verb Conjugation
Verbs of Activities
Verbs of Giving and Receiving
Colors
More About Using Numbers

Chapter 8
Talking About the Past
The Past Tense Forms in the Polite Style
Indefinite Pronouns and Negative Pronouns
Some Useful Particles
Talking about Experiences
Describing People and Things More Specifically
Some Absolute Time Expressions

Chapter 9
Using the Te-Form
Te-Form
Listing Actions and Properties Using the Te-form
Requesting with Te-form + kudasai
Giving Directions
Te-Form + iru

Chapter 10
Asking for Permission
Permission and Prohibition
Obligation and Discretion
Permissibility and Minimal Requirement
Potential and Ability
Sports and Hobbies
TEST AFTER PART 2
PART 3 STATING FACTS

Chapter 11
Stating Your Opinions
The Plain Forms of Verbs and Adjectives
Embedded Sentences
Embedded Questions
Expressing Or
Some Useful Modals
Asking Why

Chapter 12 Creating Adverbs and Adverbial Clauses
Adverbs Derived from Adjectives
Mimetic Words
Adverbials for Time
Adverbials for Reasons and Causes
Adverbials for Contrast or Contradiction
Adverbials for Purposes
Adverbials for Manner
Chapter 13 Comparing People and Things
Comparing Two Items
Making Superlative Comparisons
Chapter 14 Creating Complex Phrases and Clauses
Auxiliary Verbs and Adjectives that Follow the Stem Form
Creating Complex Modifiers
Creating Sentence-Like Noun Modifiers
Chapter 15 Indicating Changes
Using the Verbs Suru and Naru to Indicate Change
Some Useful Particles
Things You Wear

TEST AFTER PART 3

PART 4 EXPRESSING IMPLICATION, ATTITUDE, AND PERSPECTIVE
Chapter 16
Expressing Implication
Transitive and Intransitive Verbs
Auxiliary Verbs that Follow the Te-form
Expressing One's Desire
Listing Actions and Properties
Chapter 17 Expressing Attitude
More Useful Modals
Useful Pragmatic Particles
Expressing Free Choice
Plants and Animals
Chapter 18 Considering and Planning Your Actions
Commands
Using the Volitional Form
Conditionals
More Terms for Occupations and Professions
Chapter 19 Changing the Perspective
Passive Constructions
Causative Constructions
Causative-Passive Constructions
Loanwords
Chapter 20 Using Honorifics
Japanese Honorifics
Honorific and Humble Verb Forms
Honorific/Polite Noun Forms
Honorific/Polite Adjective Forms
Honorific/Polite Question Words

TEST AFTER PART 4

FINAL EXAM
Appendix A: Sentence Predicates in Japanese
Appendix B: Verb Forms
Japanese-English Glossary
English-Japanese Glossary
Answer Key
Index

Additional information

GOR005808716
9780071477260
0071477268
Japanese Demystified by Eriko Sato
Used - Very Good
Paperback
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
20080616
480
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