TOMOKO'S JAPANESE LANGUAGE TUITION

Text Books This page is about teaching materials and recommendable text books. Although this is an example shown specially for beginner, and We are pleased to use your preferable materials on your lesson. Detail of the materials can be seen and purchased at amazon.co.uk from the links shown below. Each images directly link to description and open it in new window. Please click images.
"Japanese for Busy People" series
This series is well received and widely used among many learners and courses. We think this is well designed in the balance of four skills, speaking, listening reading and writing. Chapters are based on basic dialog which is situated at everyday life and business occasion. We can recommend this because of its very practical design and concept. (Main taxt books Vol.1 - 3, workbooks, Cassette tapes, CDs and writing workbooks) The details can be seen at "Listmania lists" of amazon.
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"Minna no Nihongo" series
This series aim to teach the general adult learners to make simple conversation (Minna no Nihongo I) or more advanced conversation (Minna no Nihongo II) in daily life situations. (Main taxt books Vol.1 and 2, supplementary books, audiovisual materials) The details can be seen at "Listmania lists" of amazon.
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"Japanese For Professionals" If you have learned basic course already and need to adapt your lesson arrangement to your business requirements, you may consider "Japanese For Professionals". This book is published by the author of "Japanese for Busy People" as a comprehensive course for students who need to use Japanese in a business environment. The details can be seen at "Listmania lists" of amazon. Please click the image of cover.
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Dictionary If you just start learning Japanese and prepare text book such as Japanese for Busy People series, you do not have to hurry to purchase dictionary. We recommend you to go to bookshops or library and try many dictionaries and other materials by yourself. Depends which skill is most prior when you start, different dictionary must be chosen. We introduce few dictionaries here just as examples.
	Basic Japanese-English Dictionary (OXFORD/BONJINSHA) Around 3000 entries. All words and phrases given in romanized script with standard Japanese script alongside.

	Kodansha's Furigana Dictionaries More than 14,000 entries. Furigana pronunciation guides added to all kanji. Many encyclopedic entries offer useful background information on Japanese history and culture, includes many current terms such as artificial intelligence and internet. Example pages of Japanese-English / English-Japanese version	English-Japanese
		Japanese-English
		Japanese-English / English-Japanese
	Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary 2,230 entry characters, including all the kanji in the Joyo and Jinmei Kanji lists. 41,000 senses for 31,300 words and word elements show how each character contributes to the meanings of compounds. 1,200 homophones with core meanings explain differences between closely related characters. 386 variant forms used in prewar literature and in names. 1,945 stroke order diagrams show you how to write each kanji stroke by stroke. 7,200 character readings, including name readings. Provides a revolutionary lookup method (SKIP) for locating entries as quickly as in alphabetical dictionaries.
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Kana & Kanji writing When you learn writing in Japanese original scripts (Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji), please try using additional teaching material positively, i.e. cards, workbook which contains many visual aid, etc. Also you may consider to make Kana cards and Kanji cards by yourself. We will help you to find out your best sub-material. These are some of our recommendations.
	Kana Can Be Easy Using pictures relating to hiragana and katakana to help you learn much faster.		Kana Can Be Easy
	Tuttle Kanji Cards Flash cards present the first 440 Kanji. Suitable for sub-material of writing-reading. Also for self checking-up.
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