Beginning Japanese for Professionals: Book 2

Before We Begin
Lesson 5: In the Town

Dialogue 1

• 5-1-1 Particle De indicating the Location of Activity
• 5-1-2 Particle Ni indicating the Location of Existence
• 5-1-3 Irasshaimasu: Honorific Verbs
• 5-1-4 Ko-so-a-do series #3

Dialogue 2

• 5-2-1 Location Nouns

Dialogue 3

• 5-3-1 Deshou ‘Probably'
• 5-3-2 Mou and Motto ‘More'
• 5-3-3 More classifiers: ?kai? ?do /?kai

Dialogue 4

• 5-4-1 More classifiers : ?ko, ?mai, ?satsu
• 5-4-2 Colors Nouns and Adjectives

Review

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Lesson 6: Let's Take a Train

Dialogue 1

• 6-1-1 Location Particles ni and e
• 6-1-2 ?fun/pun: Naming and Counting Minutes
• 6-1-3 Time Particle ni

Dialogue 2

• 6-2-1 Counting Hours
• 6-2-2 Approximation: ?gurai??hodo?yaku?
• 6-2-3 Particle de “by means of”
• 6-2-4 The Starting Point ~kara, The Ending Point ~made

Dialogue 3

• 6-3-1 Nan-ji goro: Approximation of Naming Time
• 6-3-2 sugi/ mae: More about telling time
• 6-3-3 Learning Verbs with Particles

Dialogue 4

• 6-4-1Onomatopoeia

Review

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Lesson 7: Calendar

Dialogue 1

• 7-1-1 Calendar time: Counting and Naming Dates
• 7-1-2 Counting Weeks

Dialogue 2

• 7-2-1 Naming and Counting Months and Years
• 7-2-2 Counting age: ~sai for people and animals, ~nen for others
• 7-2-3 Japanese Calendar
• 7-2-4 Informal Style: Noun Sentence and Adjective Sentence

Dialogue 3

• 7-3-1 Verb ~te Form
• 7-3-2 Verb ~te form + motion verbs
• 7-3-3 Particle To indicating accompaniment ‘with'

Dialogue 4

• 7-4-1 ~te itadakemasen ka: More on Requests
• 7-4-2 Relative Time Words
• 7-4-3 Raigetsu kara no sukejuuru: Noun + Particle as a Noun Phrase

Review
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Lesson 8: Pastime

Dialogue 1

• 8-1-1 Verb Plain Form, Non-Past, Affirmative

Dialogue 2

• 8-2-1 Plain Form + n desu
• 8-2-2 [Purpose X] ni iku ‘go to do X'
• 8-2-3 Plain Form + deshou / darou

Dialogue 3

• 8-3-1 Comparing Two or More Items
• 8-3-2 Sentence + shi

Dialogue 4

• 8-4-1 Non-Past Plain Negative Forms of Verbs
• 8-4-2 ~te form of desu; X de ii ‘X will do'

Review
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This textbook is designed for beginning learners who want to learn basic Japanese for the purpose of living and working in Japan. Unlike textbooks written primarily for students, whose content largely centers on student life, this book focuses more on social and professional life beyond school.

As a beginning level textbook, this book includes many elementary grammar patterns (Japanese Language Proficiency Test Levels 5 and 4), but the vocabulary and situations are selected specifically for working adults. Explanations are kept concise so as to only cover key points. The main focus is on oral communication and the accompanying audio is to be used extensively. This textbook can be used for self-study, as part of an online course, or as a traditional college course.