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About the Book
This textbook is designed for beginning learners who want to learn basic Japanese for the purpose of living and working in Japan.
Unlike textbooks written primarily for students, whose content largely centers on student life, this book focuses more on social and professional life beyond school.
This textbook can be used for self-study, as part of an online course, or as a traditional college course. As a beginning-level textbook, this book includes many elementary grammar patterns (Japanese Language Proficiency Test Levels 5 and 4), but the vocabulary and situations are selected specifically for working adults.
Explanations are kept concise so as to only cover key points. The main focus is on oral communication.
For whom is this textbook designed?
This textbook is designed for beginning learners who want to learn basic Japanese for the purpose of living and working in Japan.
Unlike textbooks written primarily for students, whose content largely centers on student life, this book focuses more on social and professional life beyond school.
This textbook can be used for self-study, as part of an online course, or as a traditional college course.
As a beginning-level textbook, this book includes many elementary grammar patterns (Japanese Language Proficiency Test Levels 5 and 4), but the vocabulary and situations are selected specifically for working adults. Explanations are kept concise so as to only cover key points.
The main focus is on oral communication. This textbook was originally written for the first term (ten weeks) of the beginning Japanese course in the graduate program of Masters of International Management in the School of Business Administration at Portland State University.
The goals of the Japanese courses are to provide students with a foundation for acquiring future business language
skills and to increase students’ knowledge of Japanese culture. This is the first edition that has been piloted in the program and will be replaced with revised editions in the future.
What kind of things can you do in Japanese after finishing this book?
Based on ILR (Interagency Language Roundtable) estimates, we assume that in order for an English-speaking learner with average language aptitude to achieve the proficiency level of ILR Proficiency Scale 2: Limited Working Competence in Japanese, over one thousand hours of instruction will be required.
The MIM program at PSU provides 150 hours of instruction in total.
So, what can we expect our students to be able to do at the end of the program? It is not likely that they can negotiate business in Japanese or handle many professional interactions.
However, it is possible that they can handle many everyday interactions, avoid well-known taboos, answer routine questions about themselves, and network for business purposes.
The topics to be covered in this textbook are:
• Greetings and Ritual Expressions
• Meeting People and SelfIntroductions
• Exchanging Business Cards
• Schedules and Calendar
• Shopping
• Eating and Drinking
How is this textbook structured?
This textbook is comprised of ten lessons that follow the introductory Before We
Begin and Lesson 0 Greetings and Ritual Expressions sections. Each lesson consists of
four dialogues. Each dialogue is followed by a vocabulary list, grammar notes, drills and
exercises. At the end of each lesson, you will find a grammar review and application
activities.
How is reading and writing handled in this textbook?
Modern Japanese is written using a combination of kanji (characters borrowed from China) along with hiragana and katakana (two independent systems representing Japanese syllables). While the textbook introduces hiragana and katakana, no reading or writing instruction is included in this volume.
How is Japanese pronunciation presented in this textbook?
The headphones symbol indicates that there is an audio recording for the section marked by this symbol.
The accompanying audio should be maximally used to learn all the dialogues and vocabulary lists and to practice drills.
Keep in mind as you learn how to speak Japanese that you can only learn accurate pronunciation by listening to and
mimicking the pronunciation of native speakers. Avoid reading off the written scripts.
When using the audio, make sure you do not refer to the written scripts.
For many of us, visual input affects audio processing so much that it may interfere with accurately perceiving the audio input.
You should refer to the written scripts only when you need help with particular parts of the audio. After peeking at the script, go back to the audio again.
In the first four lessons in the textbook, Japanese words and sentences are presented in Romanization (Roman alphabet representing Japanese sounds) along with the authentic Japanese script.
Romanization is not meant to be an accurate representation of Japanese sounds but rather just a reminder of the sounds you hear when listening to your instructor or the audio recordings.
Be particularly mindful not to pronounce Romanized Japanese as if you were reading English or any other language.
Starting in Lesson 5, Japanese words and sentences are presented using authentic Japanese orthography.
Hiragana will be placed above kanji to indicate the correct reading. This use of kana is called furigana and is common in comic books and other publications where the writer wants to ensure the correct reading of the kanji used.
How should you use this textbook?
The dialogues present frequently observed exchanges that are part of a longer conversation. It is practical and useful to memorize these to the point where you can recite them automatically and naturally.
As suggested above, make sure you memorize dialogues using the audio and while integrating body language. You can expand each dialogue by adding elements before and after each to create a longer conversation.
You can also change parts of the dialogue to fit a different context. Either way, the original dialogue serves as a base to explore other possibilities.
| Author | Emiko Konomi |
| Language | Japanese, English |
| No. of Pages | 61 |
| PDF Size | 4 MB |
| Category | Education |
| Source/Credits | nhk.or.jp |
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