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Japanese Language Books
Here are some
suggestions for books to help you learn Japanese.
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Beginner's
Japanese (Teach Yourself Languages) (Book +CD)
by Helen Gilhooly
An excellent, well paced, accessible course to get
you speaking Japanese.
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to buy this now from Amazon.
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Oxford
Take Off in Japanese: Complete Language Learning Pack
by Lynne Strugnell
Learn to speak basic Japanese pretty
quickly. A very successful course.
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to buy this now from Amazon.
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Beginner's
Japanese Script (Teach Yourself Languages)
by Helen Gilhooly A very helpful
book showing you how to read and write Japanese, using
the three alphabets - hiragana, katakana and kanji (the
Chinese characters).
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An
Introduction to Modern Japanese: Grammar Lessons Vol 1
by Richard John Bowring and Haruko Uryu Laurie
An extremely thorough, extensive course
for the serious student - actually much more than an
introduction. You need to buy Volume 2 as well. Quite
an investment but ultimately a safe one, if you think
you're going to stick with learning Japanese.
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to buy this now from Amazon.
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An Introduction
to Modern Japanese: Exercises and Word Lists Vol 2
by Richard John Bowring and Haruko Uryu Laurie
The companion volume to this comprehensive course.
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to buy this now from Amazon.
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Let's
Learn Hiragana: First Book of Basic Japanese Writing
by Yasuko Kosaka Mitamura A
very good book that teaches you to write one of the
Japanese alphabets. One at a time is probably the easiest
way - and this book is great for regular practice at
home.
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to buy this now from Amazon.
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Let's
Learn Katakana: Second Book of Basic Japanese Writing
by Yasuko Kosaka Mitamura And now the second
Japanese alphabet.
Useful reference book. Completely up-to-date and very
accessible. For beginners onwards.
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to buy this now from Amazon.
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Let's
Learn Kanji
by Joyce Yumi Mitamura and Yasuko Kosaka Mitamura
And now the Chinese characters used in Japanese writing.
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to buy this now from Amazon.
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Japanese
for Busy People: Kana Version Bk. 1
by Association for Japanese Language Teaching
An introduction to Japanese, mainly
for businesspeople. It's worth getting this version
(with the Japanese script) because you're going to want
to learn the writing anyway and having everything romanised
for too long holds you back.
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to buy this now from Amazon.
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Japanese
for Busy People: Kana Workbook Vol 1
by Association for Japanese Language Teaching
A workbook to accompany the preceding
coursebook. Very useful, though you might want to buy
the Let's Learn books (see above) as well, to help you
to master the alphabets.
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to buy this now from Amazon.
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Japanese
for Busy People: CDs Vol 1
by Association for Japanese Language Teaching
Audio to accompany the course. A great
help with pronunciation and working out what the script
says/sounds like.
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here
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Japanese
Core Words and Phrases: Things You Can't Find in a Dictionary
by Kakuko Shoji An excellent reference book
for the more advanced student.
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to buy this now from Amazon. |
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A Dictionary
of Basic Japanese Sentence Patterns
by Naoko Chino A useful reference book.
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to buy this now from Amazon.
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Japanese
Verbs at a Glance
by Naoko Chino Shows you how the verbs change
according to tense etc.
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to buy this now from Amazon.
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Oxford
Beginner's Japanese Dictionary
by Jonathan Bunt and Gillian Hall Much more
than a dictionary.
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to buy this now from Amazon. |
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Martin's
Concise Japanese Dictionary: English-Japanese/Japanese-English
by Samuel E. Martin
A useful, well compiled dictionary.
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to buy this now from Amazon.
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