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Contemporary Japanese Volume 2: An Introductory Textbook for College Students
Includes Audio CD.
Contemporary A Textbook for College Students is designed for beginning students of the Japanese language at the university level. It is designed for use in the classroom as well as for self-study. Each lesson is based on a single communicative objective and makes much use of the discovery approach (guess and try)so that students learn through problem-solving and participation as opposed to being taught by rote. Its unique innovative and effective way of teaching through observing real-life conversations takes a fun approach to learning the language that will motivate independent and non-vocational learners.
Contemporary Japanese Workbook Volume 1 serves as a supplementary material for Contemporary A Textbook for College Students Volume 1 , as well as a self-sufficient comprehensive workbook for practicing and reviewing Japanese. Focusing on four language skills (speaking, listening, reading and writing), it contains 13 chapters of worksheets and activities on vocabulary and grammar usage, and conversations in the context of formal and informal college daily life, business and traveling. An audio CD containing drills, dialogues, and listening comprehensions for most activities accompanies the workbook.
Contemporary A Textbook for College Students is designed for beginning students of the Japanese language at the university level. It is designed for use in the classroom as well as for self-study. Each lesson is based on a single communicative objective and makes much use of the discovery approach (guess and try)so that students learn through problem-solving and participation as opposed to being taught by rote. Its unique innovative and effective way of teaching through observing real-life conversations takes a fun approach to learning the language that will motivate independent and non-vocational learners.
Contemporary Japanese Workbook Volume 1 serves as a supplementary material for Contemporary A Textbook for College Students Volume 1 , as well as a self-sufficient comprehensive workbook for practicing and reviewing Japanese. Focusing on four language skills (speaking, listening, reading and writing), it contains 13 chapters of worksheets and activities on vocabulary and grammar usage, and conversations in the context of formal and informal college daily life, business and traveling. An audio CD containing drills, dialogues, and listening comprehensions for most activities accompanies the workbook.
240 pages, Paperback
First published July 15, 2005
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About the author
Eriko Sato
65 books14 followersEriko Sato, Ph.D is Assistant Professor of Japanese Linguistics and Pedagogy in the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Sato's research interests include Japanese linguistics and pedagogy, translation studies, and second language acquisition. In addition to several journal articles in these research areas, Sato published a number of Japanese textbooks and grammar/kanji reference books. Sato serves as the advisor for Teacher Certification Program for Japanese, the Executive Committee Chair for the Japan Center at Stony Brook and the Director of the Pre-College Japanese Program.
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October 11, 2019
3,5.
This is actually a good series. It's composed of two Textbooks and two Workbooks. There's a total of 26 chapters divided by three/four/five lessons each. Every lesson lasts two pages. The scheme is the same for each lesson: a vocabulary list, a dialogue, some "Guess and try" exercises, some "Drills", classroom tasks, a short reading and a small writing section. The grammar points are explained at the end of each chapter, where there are also some very interesting and important cultural notes and a section called "Tips and additional knowlege", that has an heterogeneous content, from some specific words to some slang expressions. At the end of the chapter there's also a review section.
The book wants to make the student understand grammar by himself and only then it explains the grammar points, which to me is a good idea because it makes you think about what you are reading. Grammar points are well explained, even though sometimes they seem a little scattered, because some ways of saying the same thing are in different chapters, so you might get confused sometimes on what's the difference between the two.
The negative side to me is mostly the boredom that emerge at a certain point. It's all the same, the same structure for every chapter and the dialogues and the reading sections are usually not that interesting in the Textbook (the Woorkbook is better). So that's why I dropped a star from the first volume.
In the books there are 274 kanji and in the preface there's written that there are 1000 vocabulary words.
Overall it's a really good place to start, both for classes and self-taught people (like me). It has a cheaper price than most of other textbooks (Minna no nihongo, Genki...) and it has nothing less to offer than those. The content of the books basically covers the N5 and N4 levels of JLPT.
This is actually a good series. It's composed of two Textbooks and two Workbooks. There's a total of 26 chapters divided by three/four/five lessons each. Every lesson lasts two pages. The scheme is the same for each lesson: a vocabulary list, a dialogue, some "Guess and try" exercises, some "Drills", classroom tasks, a short reading and a small writing section. The grammar points are explained at the end of each chapter, where there are also some very interesting and important cultural notes and a section called "Tips and additional knowlege", that has an heterogeneous content, from some specific words to some slang expressions. At the end of the chapter there's also a review section.
The book wants to make the student understand grammar by himself and only then it explains the grammar points, which to me is a good idea because it makes you think about what you are reading. Grammar points are well explained, even though sometimes they seem a little scattered, because some ways of saying the same thing are in different chapters, so you might get confused sometimes on what's the difference between the two.
The negative side to me is mostly the boredom that emerge at a certain point. It's all the same, the same structure for every chapter and the dialogues and the reading sections are usually not that interesting in the Textbook (the Woorkbook is better). So that's why I dropped a star from the first volume.
In the books there are 274 kanji and in the preface there's written that there are 1000 vocabulary words.
Overall it's a really good place to start, both for classes and self-taught people (like me). It has a cheaper price than most of other textbooks (Minna no nihongo, Genki...) and it has nothing less to offer than those. The content of the books basically covers the N5 and N4 levels of JLPT.
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