Basic Japanese: A Grammar and Workbook

Professor Shoko Hamano and Assistant Professor for Teaching Takae Tsujioka have published a textbook called Basic Japanese: A Grammar and Workbook (Routledge, 2010). If our students at GW picked up a copy, the lessons may not look too familiar, but there are some grammatical explanations and exercises that may look familiar.

The following is a description from the publisher.

This book presents 25 grammar units, covering the core material which students would expect to encounter in their first year of learning Japanese. Divided into two parts, the first part outlines fundamental components of Japanese including the writing system, pronunciation, word order, particles and conjugation patterns, while the second part builds on this foundation by introducing basic grammatical patterns organised by the task they achieve. Grammar points are followed by contextualised examples and exercises which allow students to reinforce and consolidate their learning. Basic Japanese is suitable both for class use and independent study making it an ideal grammar reference and practice resource for both beginners and students with some knowledge of the language.