Copywrite (C) 1996 by Indranil Nath. All rights reserved. No parts of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner what so ever without written permission. Japanese Language Series books may be used for educational or sales promotional use. For information please write to indranil@nathonline.com  Your valuable feedback is always welcomed.  This book is dedicated to my Late mother, Ajanta Nath. Download the book "Practical Guide to Basic Japanese" or Download the "Training Handbook"

The purpose of this book is to teach students with no previous background in Japanese learn basic Japanese. It also aims to give the reader studying with a teacher a good grounding in spoken Japanese, enable him to communicate in most simple every day situations and concentrate on learning the two kana scripts - Hiragana & Katakana including recognizing of Kanji through comprehension. The main topics include are the Japanese writing system, the elements of Japanese grammar and other related text.

The book is designed to serve as a text for self or group study as well as for formal courses in Japanese. The several features that you will find helpful are; (1) every grammatical points is illustrated with examples sentences in Japanese, accompanied by translations; (2) English translations are provided for portions of the Japanese exercises and Dialogues; (3) in addition to these there are other chapters discussing Japanese etiquette, salutations. Thus at every stage you will be able to gauge your progress and assess your mastery of the writing system, grammar, and daily usage vocabulary.

This book is the basis from various Language Training Programme conducted by me in language training Institutions and Industry. Most of the materials in this book has been class tested, and I am very grateful to the students who, having no previous background in Japanese, labored many hours to master the material and offered many suggestions for improving the manuscript.

I wish to thank several people including Mrs. Kazoku Nigam, Vice-Chairman, Indo-Japan Language Studies Society, Calcutta who helped me in reviewing and providing me with their valuable suggestions.

Finally, I am grateful to my wife and parents who had to put up with several of my demands while this book was being written. Without their help and emotional support, I do not think, I would have completed this project.

Indranil Nath, January 1996 , Calcutta, India.

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