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The Everything Japanese Guide


 

 

 

About the Course: Once you know the basics, the best way to improve your Japanese is to analyze authentic usage examples of the language on a sentence-by-sentence, word-by-word basis. That is exactly what this section does. Most of these lessons might be called "short, annotated readings."

Each chapter of the course is independent. There is a quite a bit of variation in the subject matter, format, and degree of difficulty.

This material will be added to and updated on a regular basis, so check back often.

 

 

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  1. Lesson 1: THE DESIRES OF THE GROUP SPIRIT GENERATION
    団塊世代の希望 (Part 1)
  2.  Lesson 1  (Part 2)
  3. Lesson 2: “I’ll Only Be Living Here for a While.”
  4. Lesson 3: 現代の米国人の体格 Gendai no Beikokujin no Taikaku 
  5. Lesson 4: Quality Control 品質管理 
  6. Lesson 5: Children in Japan
  7. Lesson 6: The Slump in Sales 売り上げ低迷
  8. Lesson 7:  Don't Hope for Much 関の山
  9. Lesson 8: Average Salaries 平均給与
  10. Lesson 9: Feeling Alone shimen-soka 四面楚歌, hitori-zumoo 一人相撲
  11. Lesson 10: Banishment -- tsuihoo 追放 / mura-hachibu 村八分
  12. Lesson 11: Don't Even Think About It 思い止まる
  13. Lesson 12: Are you experienced? 経験
  14. Lesson 13: The Declining Mathematics Skills of University Students
  15. Lesson 14: As if it were proper
  16. Lesson 15: International Law Moot Court
  17. Lesson 16: The Russian Arms Industry
  18. Lesson 17: Pictures of Mars
  19. Lesson 18: Napster and Other Free Exchange Services