Nihongo Daijobu! Elementary Japanese through Practical Tasks Book 1

Tired of boring textbooks that provide no useful language? Want a book that pushes you to use Japanese rather than having you stale conversations in a book? Nihongo Daijobu uses task-based learning to encourage students to use what they have been learning. Task-based learning uses real-life tasks to allow language learners to practice and retain their language knowledge. The book has 12 units ranging from ‘Nice to Meet You’ to ‘My Perfect Sunday’. These lessons are further broken down into what the book describes as the 3 steps. Step one is trying out the grammar in a real-world scenario. Step 2, review what happened in the scene. Step 3 is shadowing and listening practice. 

We recommend this book students who may have studied beginner Japanese before and want to practice all language skills but especially speaking and listening. And once you finish the book, you can go on to Book 2!

Goals:

• Communicate in everyday situations
• Describe aspects of everyday life
• Understand the basics of grammar
• Learn 500 vocabulary words

Contains:

Unit 1　Nice to meet you

Unit 2　What is this?

Unit 3　What time is it?

Unit 4　Shopping strategies

Unit 5　I am going to Okinawa

Unit 6　Using telephone strategies

Unit 7　Thank you for the meal

Unit 8　My perfect Sunday

Unit 9　That's nice!

Unit 10  How was it?

Unit 11　Calling in sick

Unit 12　My hometown

 

Japanese Title:きょうから話せる！にほんごだいじょうぶ

Pages: 207

ISBN: 978-4-8163-4750-4

Book Size: A4

Languages: Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji, Romaji, and English)

Additional Materials: CD with MP3 Files and booklet

Size: B5