Beginning Japanese 30 Day Chousen - Yumi Boutwell - Bog

30 beginning Japanese lessons in 30 days.Just a few minutes a day!Do you have fifteen minutes a day to improve your Japanese kanji, vocabulary, listening, speaking, and understanding of Japanese sentence structure? Yes, all of them!Every day for the next month, grab a cup of coffee, and sit down for fifteen minutes. Each lesson focuses on one main vocabulary word. Learn a fun phrase, proverb, or idiom, and then take a deep dive with that word's kanji. Lastly, spend some time with an example sentence--every word is defined and important grammatical patterns explained.Sound files for all Japanese in the bookEach lesson includes several sound files of all the Japanese. The example sentences have two sound files each. One with the sentence read at normal speed and one slowed down. Spend your last few minutes "shadowing" or "overlapping" the audio to work on your pronunciation. As the sound file plays, say the words right after the speaker or with the speaker.You'll find a link to the audio files in the back of the book. Download for no extra charge.ABOUT CLAY & YUMIYumi was a popular radio DJ in Japan for over ten years. She has extensive training in standard Japanese pronunciation which makes her perfect for creating these language instructional audio files.Clay has been a passionate learner of Japanese for over twenty years now. His free language learning website, www.TheJapanesePage.com, got its start back in 1999 as a way to help other learners of Japanese as well as himself. In 2002, they opened www.TheJapanShop.com to help students of Japanese get hard-to-find Japanese books. Hiroko-san is our resident grammar champion! Her easy-to-understand explanations greatly enhanced the usefulness of this book. I hope you agree!Yumi and I are very grateful for your purchase and we truly hope this book will help you improve your Japanese. We love our customers and don't take a single one of you for granted. If you have any questions about this book or Japanese in general, please let us know.Clay & Yumi Boutwell