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| ・KANJI IN CONTEXT (中・上級学習者のための漢字と語彙 ) |
| ・WRITING LETTERS IN JAPANESE (日本語の手紙の書き方 ) |
| ・FORMAL EXPRESSIONS FOR JAPANESE INTERACTION (待遇表現 ) |
| ・AN INTRODUCTION TO ADVANCED SPOKEN JAPANESE |
| ・INTEGRATED SPOKEN JAPANESE |
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Mastering kanji is a very important key to the smooth transition from the beginner's level of Japanese to the advanced level. This material, which consists of the [Reference Book] and [Workbook Vols.1 & 2], is designed to enable students to systematically and efficiently learn kanji and kanji-based vocabulary indispensable to Japanese communication.
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Writing Letters in Japanese has been created to serve as guide for foreign students of Japanese who wish to write letters as part of their day-to-day experience in Japan. This book provides the necessary information for letter writing as well as models of letters written for various situations that foreigners are likely to encounter in Japan.
The first section of this book, "Fundamentals," explains the basics of writing letters in Japanese, such as the social concepts behind letter writing, letter format, seasonal greetings and other fixed expressions. The second section, "Application," contains over 70 examples of such letters as greetings, requests, thank-you letters, invitations, personal news and letters regarding employment.
These letters not only provide models for different purposes of writing, but also show the various levels of formality and how they change depending on the nature of the relationship between the writer and the addressee. In order for students to easily apply these letters to their own situations, each example has guide marks representing levels of formality as well as additional notes on word usage and the etiquette and traditions surrounding letter writing. By following the instruction of letter writing and modeling his or her letters on the examples, students will be able to write letters like those written by educated native speakers of Japanese.
"An excellent aid for the serious student." --Donald Richie
Originally designed as a textbook for intermediate and advanced students at the Center, this textbook has been repeatedly updated and revised to meet the everchanging needs of students.
It is often difficult for non-native speakers to interact properly in Japanese society, but many of the problems arise not from language use, but because many of the commonly taught "sterile" patterns can, when used out of context, lead to misunderstanding and even stronger emotions when used in the real world of Japan's society.
This book not only introduces the Japanese language as spoken by millions, but also serves as a guide to the varying levels of formality within Japanese society that are reflected in the Japanese language. The better your Japanese becomes, the more those around you expect you to act as though you were Japanese, thus constantly adjusting your level of diction and speech patterns as social status, intimacy, and context require.
Through its twelve units, the text guides students to the level of competency necessary for communication within Japan's complex society, filling the void left by more traditional advanced-level texts.
An Introduction to Advanced Spoken Japanese is designed as a review text for students of Japanese who have completed two years of college-level instruction in the language or the equivalent. The text has emerged from years of using and improving Basic Japanese - A Review Text at the Inter-University Center, and from extensive study and reflection about how students can be helped to speak Japanese correctly and fluently in the shortest time possible.
Since the principal objective of the volume is to assist you in achieving proficiency in spoken Japanese, each of the sixteen lessons is focused on a situation usually faced by a foreign student living and studying in Japan. Every lesson opens with a Japanese conversation between a foreign student and one or more persons, contains examples and drills in conversation form, and introduces crucially important words and phrases for that particular situation. Since accurate speech is possible only when grammatical constructions are understood and used correctly, each lesson lists - on the first page for that lesson - the grammatical forms to be reviewed. These forms are embedded in the conversations and drills of that lesson, permitting you to practice them in various settings.
The objective of Integrated Spoken Japanese is to provide drill materials for approximately five hundred patterns, usages, and constructions of spoken Japanese at a level beyond the basic patterns of beginning Japanese. The text has been used in the Inter-University Center intensive advanced Japanese program following the introductory Intermediate Spoken Japanese Center text. The twelve lessons of ISJ, all of which have the same basic layout and utilize the same procedures, are normally covered in a period of eight to twelve weeks (120-180 classroom hours), depending upon the initial level of each section of students.
Integrated Spoken Japanese assumes a level of spoken language ability equivalent to the completion of the standard beginning spoken Japanese language texts currently in use in American and Canadian university programs. The text also assumes that the student will have a basic knowledge of kanji (minimumly the 881 kyoiku kanji). In order to make the text readily usable by students with a low level of kanji knowledge, however kanji readings in furigana are provided throughout the entire text (with the exception of the honbun, kaiwa-bun, and oyo kaiwa-bun passages, for which complete English vocabulary lists are provided).
Each lesson of Integrated Spoken Japanese is organized as follows: