New Japanese (I) · Revised Edition

Author: Gu Xueqian
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Publishing Date: 1997-04-01
Features: This book was originally a three-volume set, namely Japanese I, II, and III, designed for foreign students at the Japanese School of the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies who were beginners in Japanese. Using this textbook for teaching enables students to acquire the ability to engage in various learning activities in Japanese at Japanese universities. Our country's preparatory school for Japanese-studying students going to Japan also adopts this textbook, and years of teaching practice have further proven that the effect of using this textbook is good. Chinese students studying this textbook for half a year can basically understand the courses on mathematics, physics, and chemistry taught by Japanese teachers; after studying for eleven months, they can understand Japanese teachers' lectures upon entering Japanese universities. Currently, this textbook is very popular among Japanese-studying students going to Japan and Japanese enthusiasts in many countries. To meet the needs of a broad readership of Japanese learners, we have made some adaptations to this textbook and added some content. This textbook is an excellent learning material for self-study and can also serve as a basic textbook for Japanese majors in colleges and universities, as well as a reference book for Japanese teachers. Regarding the adaptation of Japanese I, we paid attention to the following points:
1. To facilitate learning, words are not arranged by part of speech but in the order they appear in the text, with pitch marks, parts of speech, and meanings indicated. For commonly used Kanji, the focus for adult Chinese readers is pronunciation, so they are placed in the vocabulary list of each lesson and not in a separate column.
2. Given that Japanese I emphasizes basic sentence patterns, and considering the characteristics of adult Japanese learners, additional grammatical points have been added. This section includes basic sentence patterns and grammatical explanations. There are 192 basic sentence patterns, each explained in conjunction with the corresponding lesson, accompanied by a sufficient number of example sentences. The content of grammatical explanations is determined based on the needs of the text and exercises and is not systematically taught.
3. The content of the original textbook's lessons has not been altered. However, each lesson is accompanied by a reference translation, written in a literal style to aid self-study. Appropriately, footnotes are added for particularly difficult language phenomena.
4. The format of the original textbook's exercises remains largely unchanged, with reference answers provided for each lesson to facilitate self-assessment and correction for learners.
5. The original textbook was divided into three parts per lesson: text, exercises, and vocabulary. The adapted structure is: text, vocabulary, grammar, exercises, reference translation of the text, and answers to exercises. The reference translation and answers can be flexibly used based on individual needs to achieve practical results. A comprehensive vocabulary list is provided at the end of the book for easy reference.