Bernabe, Marc

Helps even beginning students master thebasics of conversational Japanese with fifteen lessons including drills, the patterns of Japanese grammar and more than 360 kanji characters to assist in the learning process. Eleven of these lessons cover such grammar topics as intransitive/transitive verbs, particles, honorific expressions, and even dialects and proverbs.

An introduction to the language and culture of Japan as it is portrayed in popular comics or mangas that use text excerpts to demonstrate the proper structure and use of written and spoken Japanese.