Product Description

Learn Japanese with the long-awaited sequel to Human Japanese! Like its predecessor, Human Japanese Intermediate is built on the idea that the best way to learn and truly comprehend Japanese is to have it explained by someone who speaks your language. Core concepts are explained in a friendly, down-to-earth tone, with frequent comparisons to similar aspects of English. With humor and warmth, it demystifies and illuminates the real nuts-and-bolts of the language--not just vocabulary and canned phrases like many other products. Explanations come alive with deeply interwoven interactive example sentences so that you can immediately see and hear exactly what you're learning. Stay on track with an exciting new U.S. patent-pending feature called INGREDIENTS example sentence breakdowns, which provide an instantaneous lookup of every word in example sentences! That means you'll never lose your flow in the middle of an interesting discussion just because you've momentarily forgotten the meaning of a word. Human Japanese Intermediate gets into kanji in a big way, too. At the end of most chapters, a new batch of kanji is introduced, with animations of each character, plus example sentences, illustrations, writing tips, and more. The goal is not to simply throw a bag of characters in your lap, but to carefully explain how everything works. To this end, Human Japanese Intermediate keeps track of which kanji you've learned at what point in the text and automatically adjusts the "spelling" of words in example sentences as appropriate to your current knowledge. This approach helps overcome the chicken-and-egg aspect of kanji that can make it so challenging. Stay sharp with five different kinds of quizzes: chapter reviews, vocab, conjugation, kanji stroke order, and kanji flashcard. Human Japanese Intermediate is created by a smal team that cares deeply about helping you understand Japanese more deeply than ever before. Continue your journey today.