Japanese for Fun: Make Your Stay in Japan More Enjoyable

by Taeko Kamiya

This is a concise guide to learning basic Japanese.

This pocket book is intended for people who want to learn Japanese quickly. Whenever you have a few minutes waiting in a hotel lobby, riding on a train, or whateveropen this book and you can learn phrases you'll use again and again during your stay in Japan. The book is divided into twentyone chapters, each covering a specific topic. Each chapter includes the following three To use this book, start by reading the first three chapters of the book. These introduce many of the most commonly used words and phrases, and familiarize you with the basic sentence structures. After Chapter

176 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1990

About the author

Taeko Kamiya is a internationally recognized linguist, teacher and author. She studied at Doshisha Women's College (Kyoto) before receiving Masters degrees from the University of San Francisco in education and from Monterey Institute of International Studies in linguistics. She taught Japanese for twenty-five years at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, and has written several critically acclaimed books about the Japanese Language.