Promotional Information
Guaranteed success, incredible progress and absolute confidence in
Japanese.
Promotional Information
Guaranteed success, incredible progress and absolute confidence in
Japanese.
Table of Contents
- : pronunciation of Japanese sound structure
- : -masu (verbal ending for affirmative verbs) tabemasu,
nomimasu, shimasu, yomimasu, kakimasu, kaimasu, hanashimasu (I,
s/he, you, we, they eat/ drink, do, read, write, buy, speak)
- : shigoto o shimasu postposition o, placed after the object of
the verb
- : kyou/ ashita time expressions
- : tokidoki (sometimes) as verbal quantifier
- : yomimasu soshite kakimasu, with soshite as sentence joining
conjunction
- : nani + ka (what do you ......?)
- : desu copula
- : nan desu ka (what is it?) / doko desu ka (where is it?) /
itsu desu ka (when is it?) / dare desu ka (who is it?)
- : kore/ sore/ are/ kare/ kanojo pronouns and their use
- : wa as topic marker
- : omoshiroi / oishii / nemui adjectives (interesting /
delicious)
- : -masen (verbal ending for negative verbs) mimasu
- : -masen ka (won’t you watch/ eat/ read/ .....?)
- : nanimo + masen (do/eat, write etc nothing)
- : verbal quantifiers amari / zenzen + masen (rarely/ never do
etc)
- : kara (because .......)
- : ga conjunction (....but.....)
- : mashou / mashou ka (let’s / shall we .....?)
- : ikimasu/ kimasu/ kaerimasu (go, come, return- verbs of
motion)
- : ni postposition following a destination .. ni ikimasu (go to
.....) / doko ni ikimasu ka (where do you go to?)
- : doshite+ka (why do you...?)
- : to (together with my friend, I ....)
About the Author
Helen Gilhooly has lived and worked in Japan, and has a PGCE and an
MA in Japanese. She is a university teacher trainer, language
materials writer and senior director at a specialist language
college in the UK. Niamh Kelly is Lecturer in the Japanese
Department at Dublin City University, Ireland.
Reviews
"A unique and perfectly brilliant way of learning languages" -
Stephen Fry"Five minutes into the first CD, you already feel like
you're winning" - Time Out"The most extraordinary learning
experience of my life" - Emma Thompson"I never thought I could
learn Spanish, but using the Michel Thomas Method has made me
realize there is hope..." - Bruce Parry"The nearest thing to
painless learning" - The Times"For the first time, trying to speak
Italian was fun, not frustrating" - TES"Works like a dream" - The
Daily Telegraph"Michel Thomas is a precious find indeed" - The
Guardian
