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How to Use This Book

Before you begin, keep these things in mind:

1. This book focuses on teaching an informal Japanese style. This informal Japanese is the style mainly used in friendly relationships like those between close friends, family members, and people of the same age or status.

2. In informal conversation, particles especially wa, ga, and o (which indicate the topic, subject and object in a sentence respectively) are often omitted. This book does likewise.

Tuttle Japanese for Beginners is organized into chapters that help you to gradually learn and expand your understanding; it also includes some useful features like quick reference guides and tables, answers to the exercises, and an index of vocabulary.

In the chapters, you’ll see these sections:

Dialogues are composed of sentence patterns that are easy to memorize. They demonstrate both female and male speech patterns.

Comics are used to introduce Japanese viewpoints, thoughts, lifestyles, and events.

Vocabulary explains all new vocabulary that’s used in the Dialogues. To help you remember them, these new vocabulary words and phrases are used as much as possible in the chapter’s examples.

Learning from the Dialogues/Comics breaks down and describes the grammar used in each of the sentence patterns in the dialogues or comics. Each item you learn is explained with the use of examples of words or phrases in the dialogue/ comic.

Concepts are often explained next—these are extra points of interest, such as details about everyday life in Japan, language usage tips, and cultural notes.

Practice gives a variety of exercises to help you to check how much you remember and understand from what you have studied. The answers are found at the end of this book so that you can check your work. If you cannot answer about 80% of the exercises correctly, you should spend some extra time reviewing that chapter again.