A new and exciting approach to basic Japanese for young adults


The Association for Japanese-Language Teaching (AJALT), renowned for its Japanese for Busy People series, has developed a comprehensive course for teaching Japanese to young adulsts in English-speaking countries.


Japanese for Young People is a new three-level series designed primarily for junior high and high school curricula encourage systematic Japanese-language acquisition through an enjoyable but structured learning process.


This Kana Workbook-a fully integrated component of the Japanese for Young People series-is for young students who want to learn the two native phonetic sctipts, hiragana nad katakana. Its unique and proven approach, which is based on a solid foundation of writing drills and an aptional audio cassette that is part of Japanese for Young People I: Cassette Tapes, teaches the pronunciation and configuration of the kana characters in tandem.


with numerous illustrations, a combination of traditional reading and writing drills, and an entertaining selection of crossword puzzles and wordsearches, Japanese for Young People I: Kana Workbook is the prefect guide for young learners encountering Japanese for the first time.