- Describe yourself, your family and your friends.
- Talk about daily events using basic vocabulary and grammatical constructions.
- Understand conversations on these topics as well as classroom activities.
- Read Japanese articles and write short compositions and letters.
Elementary Japanese Volume One covers the first semester of a college-level Japanese beginner course. It contains 14 lessons, each representing one week of instruction over multiple sessions. Each lesson consists of a dialogue, usage notes, grammar notes, exercises, new kanji and explanations, and new vocabulary. Authentic Japanese script is used throughout; the two volumes together introduce 313 Kanji. All disc content is accessible on tuttlepublishing.com/downloadable-content.