A popular elementary Japanese textbook by The Japan Times offering understandable explanations and a wide variety of stimulating activities. This book is textbook I, starting from no knowledge to knowing hiragana, katakana and the first 145 kanji. Romanization of Japanese is used in the first two lessons to help students unfamiliar with hiragana and katakana, but soon tries to ween the student off romanization.

A popular elementary Japanese textbook by The Japan Times offering understandable explanations and a wide variety of stimulating activities. This book is textbook II, starting from basic knowledge of grammar and kanji #146 to 317.

Presenting all spoken Japanese as a variation of three basic sentence types, Japanese the Manga Way shows you how to build complex constructions step by step. Almost every key grammar point taught in the first two years of study is illustrated with a panel from a manga actually published in Japan to show how the language is used in real life. Learning with manga makes rules and structures easy to remember, and also lets you experience colloquialisms, contractions, interjections, and other elements of speech that get short shrift in more formal textbooks.

Japanese kanji - the written characters adapted from Chinese - were originally drawings of images from real life. Japanese comic books and cartoons now provide fresh images to help us learn. "Kanji de Manga" uses today's manga images to make the kanji learning process fun and easy for "Otaku" of all ages.

This book, indispensable for any serious Japanese learner, consists of five sections. The first section familiarizes the reader with the grammatical terms used throughout the text. The second provides an overview of the major grammar concepts of Japanese. The third and main portion of the text is devoted to descriptions and explanations of the basic grammar items. The fourth and fifth sections, consisting of eight appendixes and three indexes, complete the text.

The long-awaited follow-up to the bestselling Japanese language book. In order to advance beyond beginning-level Japanese, students must develop facility in handling a variety of language issues both in written and in spoken Japanese. This dictionary goes beyound the basics to provide students with information which is essential to the mastery of intermediate-level Japanese.

A Dictionary of Advanced Japanese Grammar, the third volume in the widely-acclaimed, bestselling Japanese grammar dictionary series, is designed to introduce students of Japanese to advanced-level Japanese grammar expressions and help them deepen their understanding of the critical and subtle differences in meaning and usage between the target expressions and other synonymous expressions.

This book by James W. Heisig provides Japanese students with a simple method for correlating, using an imaginary "story", the writing and the meaning of Japanese characters to make them both easy to remember. In this way, one can complete in a few months a task that would otherwise take years. Armed with the same skills as Chinese or Korean students, who know the meaning and writing of the kanji but not their pronunciation in Japanese, they are now in a much better position to learn to read.

Following the first volume of "Remembering the Kanji", the present work takes up the pronunciation of characters and provides students with helpful tools for memorizing them.

Students who have learned to read and write the basic 2,000 characters run into the same difficulty that university students in Japan face. The government-approved list of basic educational kanji is not sufficient for advanced reading and writing. With that in mind, the same methods employed in volumes 1 and 2 of "Remembering the Kanji" have been applied to 1,000 additional characters determined as useful for upper-level proficiency, and the results published as the third volume in the series.

Following on the success of Remembering the Kanji, the author has prepared a companion volume for learning the Hiragana and Katakana syllabaries of modern Japanese. In six short lessons of about twenty minutes, each of the two systems of "kana" writing are introduced in such a way that the absolute beginner can acquire fluency in writing in a fraction of the time normally devoted to the task.

The two basic writing forms of Japanese are Hiragana and Katakana which are phoetic symbols and often referred to as kana as a group. Learning kana is not only important to be able to read and write the Japanese language, but it is also important in order to proceed to advance levels of study. Master hiragana and katakana with visual mnemonics, learn 450 basic Japanese vocabulary words, learn to write kana with stroke by stroke diagrams and more.

A great new tool for anyone aspiring to study Japanese, this is a totally revised and updated set of high-quality laminated study cards that feature all the kanji you need to master for the JLPT 3 & 4, the first two levels that students of Japanese should attempt.

A follow to the first Kanji Flashcards set including all kanji required in the JLPT 2. Each White Rabbit Press kanji flashcard includes six commonly used kanji compounds as the essence of a kanji is best grasped by understanding the meanings it forms when combined with other characters.

A follow to the first two volumes of the White Rabbit Press Kanji Flashcards including all kanji required in the JLPT 1. Each card includes the kanji's on and kun readings, stroke order diagrams, look-alike kanji, the reading of each example word in kana scripts with definitions in English, six common compounds and more.

This compact book is a visual guide to the two basic kana syllabaries used in Japanese. Combining clever drawings and text memory aids, it teaches the beginning student the shapes and pronunciations of these essential written characters.

How does one learn kanji, the characters of written Japanese? The traditional approach is rote memorization. Japanese children write each kanji hundreds of times at their desks, and eventually they are acquired. Michael Rowley offers a different way. Each character is represented under the word or concept it stands for, followed by the pronunciations of the word in Chinese and Japanese, and a drawing that captures the meaning and resembles the character enough so that it'll come to mind whenever the kanji is seen.

The White Rabbit Press Kanji Poster includes the 1926 kanji included on the JLPT's list, plus the remaining 19 joyo kanji not included on the Japanese Language Proficiency Test, for a grand total of all 1945 kanji designated as official general use characters by the Japanese government. Plus, each character is numbered to coordinate with White Rabbit Press Kanji flashcards. The characters are conveniently color-coordinated by level so you can even use it to review for the JLPT.

One of the oldest (first published in 1928) and certainly the most authoritative Japanese↔English dictionary. Including all English from Shakespeare to the IT age this 2890 page book contains over 260,000 entries including medical and scientific terms. Considered to be THE reference book for scholars and translators, this dictionary is intended for those who already have some knowledge of kanji, looking to expand their word useage out of the common and everyday.

A new Japanese dictionary that came on the market in 2002. With information regarding usage of honorific words, typical misusages, Kanji conjugations, nuances between the different words and expressions, new Katakana words and grammatical do's and don'ts this dictionary is a must-have for advanced learners.

This dictionary contains fifty of the most fundamental Japanese sentence patterns as well as sixty-nine variations. This number covers all the patterns that are needed for levels 3 and 4 of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test. Each pattern and variation is clearly defined by a formula given in Japanese, romanization, and English. Each is exemplified by sample sentences (both in single sentences and in dialogues), and each is represented in both polite and informal usage.

This dictionary comes to you in a pocket sized book that is completely written in romaji and translated in English with Japanese text written below. The book is organized in alpha numeric order according to the sound of the expression, which ranges from expressing something that runs smoothly Sui Sui, to someone who is excited and happy Uki Uki. Each term has an illustration. A highly valuable tool in helping you learn the Japanese language that aren't often taught in detail in text books.

A complete dictionary for finding words related to food in other languages. Since food is such an international subject, the dictionary contains food-related words in English, French, Italian and Chinese. Need to look up words in a Japanese bento book? This dictionary of food words will help a lot.

The premiere magazine for students of Japanese and anyone who wants to follow Japan every month. Each issue features articles both in English and in Japanese (complete with furigana pronunciation) to help those studying the language. This is the perfect item for those who are studying the Japanese language, interested in living in Japan, and all Japanophiles.