New Japanese Conversation (University Grade 1)

Author: Zhong Yuxiu
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Publish Date: 2006-04-19
Features: This book is a conversation course textbook for first-year Japanese majors in higher education institutions. Referencing the teaching syllabus requirements, it includes two parts: situational dialogues and colloquial expressions for specific daily-life scenarios. Each lesson provides learners with two situational dialogue contents. Each lesson is accompanied by word annotations, translations of dialogues and colloquial expressions, and exercises. Starting from daily greetings, the book is structured according to grammatical principles, progressing from simple to advanced, and includes conversational scenarios and common expressions for daily life, interpersonal relationships, and various emotional situations. The guiding philosophy of the book's compilers is to make it suitable as a textbook for in-school students' Japanese conversation courses, as well as for self-learners or in-school students to use for self-study during spare time, improving oral proficiency, and mastering the characteristics, colloquial usage, and appropriate vocabulary for specific scenarios. This enhances the oral adaptability and conversational skills of Japanese learners. Moreover, the book features short and easy-to-understand lessons, convenient memorization, comprehensive conversational scenarios, making it possible for learners to grasp the conversational characteristics of daily life, study, and emotions, deepen their understanding, and expand their knowledge of Japanese. Additionally, explanations of sentence patterns and key points are provided after each lesson, with example sentences accompanied by translations. It is designed to be compatible with other textbooks in the series, facilitating integrated learning. As a Japanese conversation and oral textbook, the book consists of 36 lessons, covering 72 dialogues and colloquial expressions in various scenarios, with approximately 800 vocabulary words and 90 sentence patterns. An index of sentence patterns, a vocabulary list, and reference answers are included at the end. If studied at a pace of 2 hours per lesson per week, and with a semester length of 18 weeks calculated based on actual teaching time, it can be used as a 1-year Japanese conversation course textbook. Furthermore, based on the conversational scenarios in each lesson, the book also provides time and space for teachers to guide students in imagining, expanding, and deeply practicing the scenarios. This allows learners to reinforce their understanding through repeated practice, deepen their impressions, and master the characteristics of conversation.