FAQ FOR SCI.LANG.JAPAN - BOOKS BOOKS WITH FOCUS ON CONVERSATION

Colloquial Japanese by H.D.B Clarke and Motoko Hamamura

General Information: Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1981. ISBN 0-7100-05995-4 Price: 7.95 pounds
Main Features: all romaji

Japanese for all Occasions by Anne Kaneko

General Information: Publisher: Charles Tuttle. 1991. ISBN 0-8048-1567-4 Price: 10.25 pounds
Main Features: Language/culture. Sections on Telephones, shopping, gift giving, and weddings.

Rii to Kuraku no Bouken (The Adventures of Lee and Clark) by Akira Yamakami and Yoko Tsuruta

General Information: Publisher: Edition Eastview SARL 33-14-110 Honmachi 1-choume Shibuya-ku Tokyo 151 Ph: 03-3320-1597 Main Features: Level: Intermediate Conversational (suggested after "An Introduction to Modern Japanese"). The tapes focus on conversational Japanese. They include sample conversations in the form of an ongoing mystery story involving Lee and Clark, as well as drills for the new grammatical constructions and patterns. The accompanying book has complete transcriptions of all the material on the tapes, as well as excellent explanations of the grammar and usage styles of the conversations. The book is entirely in Japanese (NO ROMAJI) except for English translations of some vocabulary words. All explanations are in Japanese. The recorded material is interesting, funny, and original, a real pleasure to listen to and work with. Very highly recommended.
review by Ken DeLong.

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Rafael Santos (santos@mickey.ai.kyutech.ac.jp) Last Update: March 25, 1995