Speak Japanese Today: A Self-Study Program for Learning Everyday Japanese

Learn spoken Japanese quickly and efficiently.

Through twenty carefully thought-out lessons and two review chapters, Speak Japanese Today will teach you simple, correct Japanese most useful for everyday situations. Each lesson familiarizes you with new words and phrases in such a way that you will easily be able to remember and use them. And since the lessons concentrate on the spoken language, grammar points are clear, concise, and kept to a minimum. Students, travelers, businessmen, or anyone wanting to speak Japanese in a hurry will find this a rewarding book. Practical and reliable, Speak Japanese Today will start you conversing with confidence immediately.

Provides the perfect start for those wishing to converse in Japanese.

Learn spoken Japanese quickly and efficiently.

Through twenty carefully thought-out lessons and two review chapters, Speak Japanese Today will teach you simple, correct Japanese most useful for everyday situations. Each lesson familiarizes you with new words and phrases in such a way that you will easily be able to remember and use them. And since the lessons concentrate on the spoken language, grammar points are clear, concise, and kept to a minimum. Students, travelers, businessmen, or anyone wanting to speak Japanese in a hurry will find this a rewarding book. Practical and reliable, Speak Japanese Today will start you conversing with confidence immediately.

Gary G. Melyan presently lives in Taipei. Having lived as a youth in Japan and Taiwan, he returned to there in pursuit of a doctorate in Chinese literature. Currently he is a University of Washington Ph.D. candidate in that subject.
Wen-kuang Chu, a noted authority on Chinese literature, received his doctorate in biochemistry from the University of California at Berkeley. Educated in the West, and a permanent U.S. resident, he is nonetheless motivated by traditions from China's past, among them the I-Ching.