Beginning Japanese for Professionals: Book 1

Accessibility Statement 4
Accessibility of Beginning Japanese I 4
Organization of content 4
Images 4
Tables 4
Multimedia 4
Font Size and formatting 4
Known Issues/Potential barriers to accessibility 5
Hints 5
About the Book 6
About the Author 6
Acknowledgments 6
Table of Contents 7
Before We Begin 13
Lesson 0 16
Instructor’s Directions 16
Greetings and Ritual Expressions 16
A. Greetings 16
B. Offering and Accepting, Thanking 17
C. Addressing Someone 17
D. Apologizing 18
E. Starting and Ending Eating/Drinking 18
F. Requesting 18
G. Entering a Room (Knock on the door TWICE) 19
H. Leaving and Coming Back to Home /Office 19
I. Meeting People for the First Time 19
J. Taking Leave 20
K. Parting 20
L. Retiring at Night 20
Notes on Pronunciation 21
Syllables 21
Long Vowels 21
Long Consonants 22
Pitch Accent 22
Drills & Exercises 23
Review Questions 25
Drill Tape Script 25
Lesson 1 - New to the Office 26
Dialogue 1 26
Vocabulary 26
Grammar Notes 26
1-1-1 Verbs, Non-Past, Formal, Affirmative and Negative 26
1-1-2 Hai and Iie: Affirming and Negating 27
1-1-3 Sentence Particles Ka and Ne(e) 27
1-1-4 Adverbs 28
Drills and Exercises 28
Dialogue 2 29
Vocabulary 29
Grammar Notes 30
1-2-1 Noun + Verb 30
1-2-2 Ko-so-a-do series 30
1-2-3 Clause Particle Kedo 30
1-2-4 Particle Wa indicating Contrast 31
1-2-5 Particle Mo indicating Addition 31
Drills and Exercises 31
Dialogue 3 33
Vocabulary 33
Grammar Notes 34
1-3-1 Negative Questions as Suggestions 34
1-3-2 Chotto: Impact Softener 34
1-3-3 Aizuchi: How to be a Good Listener 34
1-3-4 Personal References 35
1-3-5 Sentence Particle Yo Indicating New Information 35
Drills and Exercises 36
Dialogue 4 37
Vocabulary 37
Grammar Notes 37
1-4-1 Verbs in the Past Form 37
1-4-2 Compound Verbs 38
Drills and Exercises 38
Review 39
Grammar Review 39
Practical Application 39
Drill Tape Script 40
Dialogue 1 40
Dialogue 2 41
Dialogue 3 41
Dialogue 4 42
Lesson 2 - Meeting People 43
Dialogue 1 43
Vocabulary 43
Clock Time 44
Grammar Notes 44
2-1-1/Noun + desu / ‘is N’ / Noun + ja nai desu/ ‘is not N’ 44
2-1-2 Clock Time 45
2-1-3 Hesitation Noises: Anou and Etto 45
Drills and Exercises 46
Dialogue 2 47
Vocabulary 48
Country Nationality (add –jin to the country name) 49
Subjects in Business School 49
Academic Disciplines 49
Grammar Notes 50
2-2-1 Noun no Noun 50
2-2-2 Loan Words 51
2-2-3 Introductions and Exchange of Business Cards 51
Drills and Exercises 52
Vocabulary 53
Grammar Notes 54
2-3-1 Echo Questions 54
2-3-2 Ano X Ko-so-a-do series #2 55
Drills and Exercises 55
Dialogue 4 56
Vocabulary 57
Grammar Notes 58
2-4-1 Days of the Week 58
2-4-2 Noun to Noun 58
2-4-3 The Past Form of /X desu/ X deshita, X ja nakatta desu 58
Drills and Exercises 59
Review 60
Grammar Review 60
Practical Applications 61
Drill Tape Scripts 63
Dialogue 1 63
Dialogue 2 63
Dialogue 3 64
Dialogue 4 64
Lesson 3 - Settling Down 65
Dialogue 1 65
Vocabulary 65
Grammar Notes 66
3-1-1 Adjective Sentences 66
3-1-2 Adjective + Noun 67
3-1-3 arimasu ‘there is X’ 68
Drills and Exercises 69
Vocabulary 71
3-2−2 Pronoun No 73
3-2-3 ka nee ‘I wonder’ 74
Drills and Exercises 74
Vocabulary 76
Grammar Notes 76
3-3-1 Na-Nouns 76
3-3-2 Adjective ~Ku Forms as Adverbs 76
Drills and Exercises 77
Dialogue 4 77
Vocabulary 78
Grammar Notes 78
3-4-1 X toka Y, X ya Y 78
3-4-2 X mo Y mo ‘both X and Y’ ‘neither X nor Y’ 79
Drills and Exercises 79
Review 81
Grammar Review 81
Practical Applications 81
Numbers 82
Drill Tape Scripts 87
Dialogue 1 87
Dialogue 2 87
Dialogue 3 88
Dialogue 4 88
Lesson 4 - Project Team 90
Dialogue 1 90
Vocabulary 90
Grammar Notes 91
4-1-1 ~mashou, Suggesting or Offering to Do Something 91
4-1-2 Particle O Marking the Object 91
4-1-3 Reason + Kara 93
Drills and Exercises 93
Dialogue 2 95
Vocabulary 96
Grammar Notes 96
4-2-1 Particle Ga Marking the Subject 96
Drills and Exercises 97
Dialogue 3 99
Vocabulary 99
Tableware 100
Grammar Notes 101
4-3-1 Double-Subject Structures 101
4-3-2 Verb Stem + tai ‘want to do x’ 101
Drills and Exercises 102
Dialogue 4 104
Vocabulary 105
Additional Food and Condiments 105
Grammar Notes 106
4-4-1 More Classifiers: ~hon、~tsu 106
4-4-2 Quantity Expressions 107
Drills and Exercises 108
Review 109
Grammar Review 109
Practical Applications 111
Drill Tape Scripts 111
Dialogue 1 111
Dialogue 2 112
Dialogue 3 112
Dialogue 4 113

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