Ebook: Japanese for Everyone Workbook

JAPANESE FOR EVERYONE WORKBOOK

This workbook is specifically designed to aid the student using JAPANESE FOR EVERYONE as his introductory text. While the exercises accompanying each lesson in JAPANESE FOR EVERYONE are intended primarily to develop skills in communicating with Japanese speakers, the goal of the exercises in the workbook is to facilitate
the acquisition of fundamental grammatical skills, including basic grammatical and sentence patterns, vocabulary items, particle use, along with other characteristic features of the Japanese language. In addition, a number of discourse and composition exercises provide the student with ample opportunity to express his own ideas and opinions, or talk about himself, as the situation demands.

As with the text, the workbook recognizes the importance of mastering the written language as well. To help the student along, a larger, easy to read tγpe face is used for the beginning lessons. Directions for each exercise, given in English at the beginning of the book, are later given in both English and Japanese, and towards the end, almost exclusively in Japanese.

The workbook contains generally five detachable pages of exercises for each lesson in the text, with usually two functions or grammar notes per page. Self-taught learners might complete the workbook page bγ page as a means of measuring their understanding of the functions and grammar notes in the text. In classroom situations, the pages of the workbook form handy homework assignments; to be torn out and handed in the following lesson. (Pages are easily removed using a bit of caution.) Answers to the exercises are printed at the back of the workbook, except for those exercises asking for students' own thoughts or opinions, etc. Moreover, a Teacher’s Manual for JAPANESE FOR EVERYONE is available as another in this series of publications from Gakken.

As the golden axiom in the field says, “There is no royal road to foreign language mastery.” Those making the greatest effort enjoy the greatest returns. Repeat the same exercises until γou are certain you have mastered them. We offer you our best wishes for success in learning Japanese!