Beginner's Japanese

Helen Gilhooly has lived and worked in Japan and has extensive experience of teaching Japanese and writing materials for learners of all ages. She has an MA and PGCE in Japanese and is currently the Language College Director of Aldercar Community Language College in Derbyshire. She is also a teacher trainer of Japanese at Nottingham University.

About the course; pronunciation guide; how do you do?; I'm British; what's your occupation?; there are five people in my family; what time is it?; how much is it?; where is the post office?; what do you do on Sundays?; let's have a party; last week I went to Kyoto; it's nice weather, isn't it?; the sport I like is tennis; let's read Japanese; shopping; a bottle of beer please; money; I want to make a reservation; is this the train for Sapporo?; let's go skiing; please come and visit; key to the activities and tests; Japanese-English vocabulary; index of grammatical structures. Appendix: numbers.