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Zusatztext "A genuinely new way of learning a language" Informationen zum Autor Helen Gilhooly has lived and worked in Japan! and has a PGCE and an MA in Japanese. She is a university teacher trainer! language materials writer and senior director at a specialist language college in the UK. Niamh Kelly is Lecturer in the Japanese Department at Dublin City University! Ireland. Helen Gilhooly is Director of the Language Faculty at Aldercar Community Language College! Derbyshire! UK and has taught Japanese at Nottingham University. She is author of various 'Teach Yourself' Japanese courses. Niamh Kelly is Lecturer in the Japanese Department at Dublin City University! Ireland. Klappentext A one hour CD for beginners. The original no-pens, no-books, no-memorizing course that gets you speaking and understanding basic Japanese in just one hour. The revolutionary Michel Thomas Method has helped over 5 million people learn a language. Zusammenfassung The original no-pens! no-books! no-memorizing course that gets you speaking and understanding basic Japanese in just one hour. The revolutionary Michel Thomas Method has helped over 5 million people learn a language. Inhaltsverzeichnis : pronunciation of Japanese sound structure: -masu (verbal ending for affirmative verbs) tabemasu! nomimasu! shimasu! yomimasu! kakimasu! kaimasu! hanashimasu (I! s/he! you! we! they eat/ drink! do! read! write! buy! speak): shigoto o shimasu postposition o! placed after the object of the verb: kyou/ ashita time expressions: tokidoki (sometimes) as verbal quantifier: yomimasu soshite kakimasu! with soshite as sentence joining conjunction: nani + ka (what do you ......?): desu copula: nan desu ka (what is it?) / doko desu ka (where is it?) / itsu desu ka (when is it?) / dare desu ka (who is it?): kore/ sore/ are/ kare/ kanojo pronouns and their use: wa as topic marker: omoshiroi / oishii / nemui adjectives (interesting / delicious): -masen (verbal ending for negative verbs) mimasu: -masen ka (won't you watch/ eat/ read/ .....?): nanimo + masen (do/eat! write etc nothing): verbal quantifiers amari / zenzen + masen (rarely/ never do etc): kara (because .......): ga conjunction (....but.....): mashou / mashou ka (let's / shall we .....?): ikimasu/ kimasu/ kaerimasu (go! come! return- verbs of motion): ni postposition following a destination .. ni ikimasu (go to .....) / doko ni ikimasu ka (where do you go to?): doshite+ka (why do you...?): to (together with my friend! I ....) ...
