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Book SynopsisOne of the most reliable classroom textbooks of Japanese for beginners.Yoshiko Nakano, Language Thisfirst book of Japanese: The Spoken Language initiates a course in modern spoken Japanese that teaches current usage through drills and functional exchanges. The series is entirely romanized. Accompanying audio and video materials are available
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Beginning Japanese has
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Journal of the British Association for Japanese Studies
