Contents

       About This Book

       About the Japanese Language

       Word order and particles

       Postpositions

       Dropping pronouns

       Verb morphology

       Counters

       Honorifics

       LESSON 1 Sound It Out in Japanese!

       Basic Sentences

       Basic Vocabulary

       Structure Notes:

       1.1. Pronunciation

       1.2. Rhythm

       1.3. Syllables

       1.4. Voicing

       1.5. Vowels

       1.6. Vowels in sequence

       1.7. Consonants

       1.8. Flapped r

       1.9. Syllabic nasal

       1.10. Accent

       LESSON 2 What? Where? Who?

       Basic Sentences

       Basic Vocabulary

       Structure Notes:

       2.1. Nouns and pronouns

       2.2. Prenouns

       2.3. Place words (relative location)

       2.4. Adjectival nouns

       2.5. Untranslated English words

       2.6. Particles

       2.7. は wa

       2.8. が ga

       2.9. か ka

       2.10. の no

       2.11. に ni

       2.12. Words meaning ‘is’

       2.13. Inflected words

       2.14. Dropping subject nouns

       2.15. Words of relative reference and question words

       2.16. Words for ‘restaurant’

       2.17. Words for ‘toilet’

       2.18. 何 nani/nan ‘what’

       LESSON 3 Actions! Actions! Actions!

       Basic Sentences

       Basic Vocabulary

       Structure Notes:

       3.1. Time words (relative time expressions)

       3.2. Nouns with and without particles

       3.3. Particles から kara, まで made, and へ e

       3.4. Particle ね ne

       3.5. Particle で de