Beginners Course/Accelerated Level Course Book (1 CD)

A First Course in Japanese (2007 Edition) has been written specifical ly for students who are beginning their study of Japanese in the last tw o years of high school. The textbook is based on the new syllabus publis hed in 2006 and covers two years of study.

It has three resources :

• the Course Book is based around six main topics. Each top ic has a number of units. Each unit begins with sentence structures foll owed by explanations of the structures. This is then followed by various texts, a grammar summary, Kanji, activities, cultural notes, vocabulary and remember of pictorial charts.
• the Workbook contains gramma tical exercises, listening, comprehension, composition and Kanji writing exercises.
• the CDs: the CD that comes with the Course Book cov ers all the sentence structures and dialogues. The Workbook CD covers al l the listening exercises, text and questions.