Bøger af Mizue Sasaki

Japanese language skills are comprehensively developed to enable learners to actively participate in campus life, including skills needed for coursework (e.g., taking notes, understanding reading material, and writing reports) and communicative skills essential to interactions with faculty and administrative staff, club activities, speeches, debates, and open discussions.

This book provides concrete tasks for learning the expressions and grammatical constructions needed to write logically in Japanese. The ten units are grouped into three levels for progressive training: (1) Building short sentences into paragraphs → (2) Composing text such as reports on experiences, announcements, and self-introductions → (3) Practicing writing reports based on data and references. Also available is Academic Japanese for International Students, a companion volume for enhancing university-level oral communication skills (taking notes on lectures, debating, carrying out administrative procedures, etc.).

This book helps users to enjoyably deepen and broaden their understanding of Japan by presenting readings that explore Japan from diverse angles--past vs. present, urban vs. rural, domestic vs. foreign, and more--followed by various tasks for strengthening comprehension. Worksheets for checking understanding of every unit's content and lists of the key words and English translations of the readings in each unit are provided at the end of the book.