Making Out in Japanese: Revised Edition

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Tuttle Publishing, 26 août 2014 - 128 pages
Making Out in Japanese is a fun, accessible and thorough Japanese phrase book and guide to the Japanese language as it's really spoken.

Sugoku suki! Mata aeru?--(I'm crazy about you! Shall we meet again?) Answer this correctly in Japanese, and you may be going on a hot date. Incorrectly, and you could be hurting someone's feelings or getting a slap! Japanese classes and textbooks tend to spend a lot of time rehearsing for the same fictitious scenarios, but chances are while in Japan you will spend a lot more time trying to make new friends or start new romances--something you may not be prepared for.

If you are a student, businessman or tourist traveling to Japan and would like to have an authentic and meaningful experience, the key is being able to speak like a local. This friendly and easy-to-use Japanese phrasebook makes this possible. Making Out in Japanese has been updated and expanded to be even more helpful as a guide to modern colloquial Japanese for use in everyday informal interactions--giving access to the sort of catchy Japanese expressions that aren't covered in traditional language materials. As well as the Romanized forms (romanji), each expression is now given in authentic Japanese script (kanji and kana with furigana pronunciation clues), so that in the case of difficulties the book can be shown to the person the user is trying to communicate with.

This Japanese phrasebook includes:
  • A guide to pronouncing Japanese words correctly.
  • Explanations of basic Japanese grammar, such as intonation, word stress, and particles.
  • A guide to male and female usage.
  • Romanized forms of words and phrases (romanji).
  • Complete Japanese translations including Japanese characters (kanji) and the Japanese alphabet (kana).
  • Useful and interesting notes on Japanese language and culture.
  • Lots of colorful, fun and useful expressions not covered in other phrasebooks.

Titles in this unique series of bestselling phrase books include: Making Out in Chinese, Making Out in Indonesian, Making Out in Thai, Making Out in Korean, Making Out in Hindi, Making Out in Japanese, Making Out in Vietnamese, Making Out in Burmese, Making Out in Tagalog, Making Out in Hindi, Making Out in Arabic, Making Out in English, More Making Out in Korean, and More Making Out in Japanese.
 

Table des matières

PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION
7
INTRODUCTION
9
1 Whats Up?
21
2 Yes and No
31
3 Got a Minute?
43
4 Say What
51
5 Comings and Goings
63
6 Eat Drink Be Merry
71
9 Chit Chat
115
10 Check It Out
127
11 Curses and Insults
135
12 Fighting Words
153
13 On the Phone
163
14 Love and Sex
171
15 The Other Side
183
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193

7 The Way I Feel
83
8 Making the Scene
97
Backcover
194
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À propos de l'auteur (2014)

Original edition by Todd and Erika Geers. Todd Geers is a graduate in Japanese studies from the University of Maryland and met his wife, Erika, in 1984 in Yokohama, Japan. He conceived the idea for a book on colloquial Japanese when he realized that what he was studying in his textbooks wasn't what he heard being spoken around him.

Revised by Glen McCabe, a Ph.D. student in Japanese at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, with additional assistance from several young native speakers of Japanese.

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