Beginning Japanese Vol. 1 (audio CDs & text) (Japanese Edition)

This course is concerned only with spoken Japanese in the standard dialect of educated inhabitants of Tokyo. Learning to speak at normal speed is emphasized, since the aim of the course is to teach the learner to understand and speak Japanese just as native speakers do. The text is in transliteration, not Japanese characters. Each lesson contains 5 drills designed to develop fluency: substitution, grammar, response, formal and informal levels, and expansion. Reissued in 2005 on 16 audio CDs (11-1/2 hours of recording), accompanied by a 409-p. text. Product No. AFJ401D.