| Brief Description: | The beginning student, tourist, traveler, businessperson - everyone interested in the Japanese language as it is spoken today - will find this book to be an invaluable learning aid. Thirty easy-to-follow lessons present the most common features of the language in short, simple and immediately useful sentences. Practice exercises enable the user to apply grammar and vocabulary, and emphasize colloquial Japanese conversation. Accompanying the lessons is a Japanese-English dictionary of 3,000 words, providing an immediate key to the most frequently used words of the language. Based on years of successful, proven linguistic methods, Easy Japanese is an eminently practical introduction to the language.
About the Author
Samuel E. Martin received his undergraduate and master’s degree in Oriental languages from the University of California at Berkeley and his Ph.D. in linguistics from Yale University. At Yale he has served as chairman of the Department of East and South Asian Languages and Literatures, and the Department of Linguistics. He is the author of numerous books and papers on Japanese and Korean, including the definitive A Reference Grammar of Japanese and A Reference Grammar of Korean. |
