Basic Japanese
Book - 2024
Everything you need to master first-year Japanese language essentials--clear explanations, tons of practice exercises, and NEW audio to improve your speaking and listening skills. The most effective way to learn any new language is to practice, practice, and practice some more. In Practice Makes Perfect: Basic Japanese, you'll find all the practice you need to complete your first year of study. Based on the proven success of the Practice Makes Perfect series, this bestselling workbook offers easily digested short sections (each taking about 10 to 15 minutes to complete), clear explanations of grammar, and a solid grounding in basic vocabulary. Supported by the McGraw Hill Language Lab app, Practice Makes Perfect: Basic Japanese also of...fers comprehensive digital support, with extensive audio recordings that provide the answer key for many exercises, so you can build your confidence in speaking and listening to the language by following the model of native Japanese speakers. With the instruction, explanations, and extensive practice in this book, you'll acquire all the knowledge and skills a first-year student is expected to master.
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[2024]
- Language
- English
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- Edition
- Premium third edition
- Physical Description
- xi, 196 pages ; 28 cm
- ISBN
- 9781265100261
- Introduction
- 1. Let's Say and Write Japanese Words!
- Basic Japanese sounds and kana characters
- The first 10 hiragana
- The second 10 hiragana
- The third 10 hiragana
- The last 16 hiragana
- Basic vocabulary with simple sounds
- Words for body parts
- Words for nature
- Double consonants, long vowels, and family terms
- Small $$$
- Adding a vowel
- Addressing older family members
- Diacritics for voiced and plosive sounds and food terms
- Diacritics $$$ and °
- Names of Japanese food
- Palatalized sounds
- Using small $$$ ya, $$$ yu, or $$$ yo
- Japanese words you might already know
- Reading basic katakana
- Special katakana combinations
- Country names written in katakana
- Writing sentences
- Kanji
- 2. Getting to Know Someone
- Introducing yourself with $$$ Hajimemashite
- Occupational and respectful titles
- Asking $$$ Dochira kara desu ka (Where are you from?)
- The question word if $$$ dochira and the particle $$$ kara
- Personal pronouns $$$ anata, $$$ watashi, and $$$ boku
- Names for countries, regions, and cities
- Describing the nationality of a person
- To say "x is y" with … $$$ wa … $$$ desu
- To express additional items with … $$$ mo
- Nationality
- Languages
- Referring to someone with $$$ ano …
- $$$ ano
- Words for people
- Describing the occupation of a person
- Creating a modifier using a noun and $$$ no
- Words for occupation
- Words for institutions
- Talking about family members
- Asking questions
- Asking yes/no questions
- Answering with "yes" or "no"
- Asking "who?"
- Greeting and parting
- Greeting
- Parting
- Thanking and apologizing
- Saying "thank you"
- Apologizing
- Referring to things around you
- Demonstrative adjectives
- Things around you
- Demonstrative pronouns $$$ kore, $$$ sore, and $$$ are
- Asking "which?" "what?" and "whose?"
- The question word $$$ dono or $$$ dore (which)
- The question word $$$ nani/nan (what)
- The question word $$$ dare no (whose)
- 3. Using numbers
- Numbers from 1 to 10
- Numbers from 11 to 99
- Numbers from 100 to 99,999
- Expressing age with the counter $$$ sai
- Telephone numbers
- Telling time
- Counters for time: $$$ ji and $$$ fun
- Relative time expressions
- Daily time frames
- The calendar
- Days of the week
- Months
- Days of the month
- Asking "when?"
- Question word $$$ itsu (when)
- Japanese national holidays
- Asking "how much?" at a store
- Things you might buy at an electronics store
- Asking "how much?" with $$$ ikura
- Shopping by saying … $$$ o kudasai
- Listing nouns with $$$ to
- Asking "how many?" with counters
- Using number phrases in a sentence
- Frequently used counters
- 4. Around town
- Basic verb forms and verb classes
- Dictionary and masu forms of verbs
- Ru and u verbs
- Frequently used verbs
- Going to the supermarket
- Showing the destination with $$$ ni or $$$ e
- The polite non-past negative suffix $$$ masen
- The negative scope marker $$$ wa
- Places around town
- Stores: … $$$ ya
- Asking "where?" and saying anywhere, somewhere, and nowhere
- Asking "where?"
- Existential pronouns
- Negative pronouns
- Habitual actions
- Asking about habitual actions with $$$ yoku (often)
- Frequency adverbs
- Making suggestions
- … $$$ masen ka and … $$$ masho
- Specifying an absolute time with $$$ ni
- Saying approximately
- Expressing the purpose of going with … $$$ ni iku
- Transportation
- Specifying the form of transportation with $$$ de
- Words for transportation
- Counters for hours and minutes
- Sentence-ending particles $$$ ne and $$$ yo
- 5. Talking about activities
- Recurring activities
- Words for proportional frequency
- The direct object marker $$$ o
- Daily routines
- Specifying the location of activities with $$$ de
- Activities on weekends
- The verb to play
- Identifying the action performer
- Specifying the action performer with the subject marker $$$ ga
- Specifying the accompanying action performer with $$$ to
- Talking about the past
- … $$$ mashita and $$$ masendeshita
- The conjunctions $$$ sorekara, $$$ demo, and $$$ desukara
- Expressing your plans
- … $$$ tsumori desu
- Nai form
- Telling what you can do: Potential form
- Making requests
- Te form
- Requesting with … $$$ te kudasai
- Talking about "now" with … $$$ te iru
- Progressive state
- Habitual state
- Resulting state
- Adverbs for intervals
- Adverbs for the aspects of an action
- 6. Talking about people and things and their locations
- Existential verbs $$$ aru, $$$ iru, and $$$ irassharu
- Pronouns for locations
- Animals
- Plants
- … $$$ … $$$ … ni (wa) … ga arimasu/imasu
- … $$$ … $$$ … wa … ni arimasu/imasu
- In a house
- Rooms and areas in a house
- Household items
- Things in a bedroom
- Expressing where things are
- Relative location words
- Compass directions
- Giving directions
- Useful landmarks for giving directions
- Actions needed for giving directions
- Marking the area covered by movement with $$$ o
- Marking the direction with $$$ ni
- The conjunction $$$ sosuruto (then)
- The ordinal counter creator … $$$ me
- Expressing human relationships
- Expressing events and incidents
- Words for scheduled events
- Words for accidents, incidents, and disasters
- The conjunction $$$ sorede (as a result)
- 7. Describing things
- Adjective types
- Describing buildings and rooms
- Adjectives in the non-past forms
- Describing buildings
- Describing rooms
- Encouraging someone to do something with $$$ dozo
- Entering your friend's house with $$$ ojamashimasu
- Character of a person
- Personality
- Question words for state: $$$ donna and $$$ do
- Adverbs of degree
- Appearance of a person
- Double subject
- Words for describing the appearance of people
- Language learning
- Expressing degree of difficulty with … $$$ nikui and … $$$ yasui
- Words for describing courses
- The conjunction $$$ soreni
- Deciding on a travel destination
- Sightseeing attractions
- Description of places
- Seasons and climates
- Listing examples with $$$ ya
- Places you may visit in Japan
- Describing a meal at a restaurant
- Adjectives in the past tense
- Words for ethnic cuisine
- Words for tastes
- Preferences and skills
- Indicating what you like and dislike with $$$ ga
- Words for preferences
- Nominalizing a verb with $$$ no
- Words for skills
- Saying what you want
- Expressing desire with $$$ hoshii
- Expressing desire with … $$$ tai
- Clothing
- Words for colors
- Words for sizes
- Descriptions of clothing
- Showing excessiveness with … $$$ sugiru
- Words for clothing and accessories
- Verbs for wearing
- Trying on clothing:… $$$ miru
- Polite shop language: $$$ gozaimasu
- Adverbs
- Adverbs derived from adjectives
- The adverb + $$$ suru
- Comparisons
- Comparing two items to each other
- Equivalent-degree comparisons
- Superlative comparisons
- Words for classes of items
- 8. Making connections
- Stating what you think with $$$ omoimasu
- The quotation particle $$$ to
- Plain forms in the non-past tense
- Using a relative clause
- Using … $$$ n desu for making connections in conversation
- Asking "why?"
- Asking for a reason with $$$ doshite
- Stating a reason with $$$ kara desu
- Possible reasons for studying Japanese
- Sharing experiences
- Expressing experience with $$$ koto ga arimasu
- Experiences you might have
- The counter $$$ kai (… times)
- Forecasting weather
- Expressing probability with $$$ desho
- Words for weather
- Talking about sickness
- Talking about a possible case with $$$ kamoshiremasen
- Symptoms of illness
- Diagnosis of illness
- Listing and connecting actions and states by using the te form
- The clause conjunctions $$$ ga and $$$ kara
- The conjunction $$$ ga
- The conjunction $$$ kara
- 9. Review exercises
- Appendix 1. The stations on the Yamanote Line in Tokyo
- Appendix 2. Prefectures in Japan
- Appendix 3. Some commonly used verb forms
- Answer key