Learn Japanese

Master real spoken Japanese in the next 30 days with this innovative, story-based immersion course, and learn to sound like a native when you speak. Just listen to one chapter per day, complete the exercises, and watch as you start saying exactly what you wanted to say!

シリーズ累計260万部突破、日本語・朗読ブームを作った国民的ベストセラーのオーディオブック！ かつて暗誦することは言語感覚を養い、心と身体を鍛える訓練法の一つだった。 忘れられつつある伝統的暗誦文化の復活を説く簡便で洒落た文章集成。

This book is originally designed for Japanese learners, N5 to N3, but it's also good for people

Master 50+ fluency-boosting Japanese idioms in 30 days, with this innovative, story-based immersion method. Just listen to one chapter per day, complete the exercises, and watch as one of the trickiest parts of becoming fluent in Japanese falls into place and improves your speech without a hitch!

All the tips and techniques Fuller discovered during his overseas career: Organized, simplified, and presented here to facilitate your language acquisition. Whether learning in a class or on your own, Secrets of Learning a Foreign Language will be your guide to success, allowing you to discover the joy of communicating within a different culture. His humorous anecdotes and cultural insights will enrich your experience.

Discover the ancient Japanese secret ways to see joy, meaning, and purpose in every single day of your life. Ikigai, or the Japanese concept of finding your purpose, is the key to living a meaningful life. If there’s one people group who have mastered the art of living - and living well, it’s definitely the Okinawans of Japan. Famous for being the world’s longest-living people, they attribute their joy and contentment to finding their ikigai. It’s the reason why they live longer, happier, and better lives than the rest of us. So how does knowing your ikigai change your life?

With Paul Noble’s simple, relaxed approach, you will learn in a way that suits you—without having to memorise long lists of words you won’t use, scribbling notes as you listen or feeling frustrated. Instead, Paul will introduce you to the basics of Japanese and guide you through over 15 hours of everyday scenarios—from simple situations like asking for directions and eating out to talking about yourself and how to master the different tenses—that are practical, fun and applicable. Just listen, interact and learn wherever you are.

This audiobook provides Japanese words and phrases that will be specifically helpful for those in educational roles whether teachers, lecturers, teaching assistants, professors, classroom assistants, ESL instructors, and other roles that require engaging with Japanese speakers in an educational setting. In addition, the audiobook also covers Japanese language basics that will be useful regardless of role and profession. This is a useful guide to get an English speaker ready for an educational role in Japan or with Japanese speakers in any location.

This beginner's Japanese course is your starting point to explore the language, offering practical phrases that you can immediately put to use. Whether you're navigating Tokyo's busy streets, exploring Kyoto's impressive temples, or conducting business in Osaka. No prior experience is required to quickly gain functional Japanese skills.

With Paul Noble’s simple, relaxed approach you will learn in a way that suits you–without having to memorise long lists of words you won’t use; scribbling notes as you listen; or feeling frustrated. Instead, Paul will introduce you to the basics of Japanese and guide you through over 15 hours of everyday scenarios–from simple situations like asking for directions and eating out to talking about yourself and how to master the different tenses–that are practical, fun, and applicable. Just listen, interact, and learn wherever you are.

Have you wondered why Japanese people use a lot of English words when you listen to a conversation in Japanese? These are the loanwords - Japanese-adopted words from other foreign languages. Some words have the same meaning, while others have a different meaning. In this audiobook, you will discover 550+ loanwords with the same meaning as in English and their pronunciations.

「走る哲学者」が半生をかけて考え抜き辿り着いた、人生を「極める」バイブル。基礎の習得から無我の境地まで、人間の成長には５つの段階がある。では、壁を越え、先に進むために必要なものは何か。

This book takes a different approach to learning. It deals with human motivation and creating the right mind-set that will drive you rapidly to your language learning goal. It is presented in simple language that most anyone can easily understand and apply. It was written for the first-time foreign language learner looking forward to a fulfilling experience and for those who have already engaged in learning but have lost their motivation and are ready to give up.

With Paul Noble’s simple, relaxed approach you will learn in a way that suits you–without having to memorise long lists of words you won’t use; scribbling notes as you listen; or feeling frustrated. Instead, Paul will introduce you to the basics of Japanese and guide you through over 15 hours of everyday scenarios–from simple situations like asking for directions and eating out to talking about yourself and how to master the different tenses–that are practical, fun, and applicable. Just listen, interact, and learn wherever you are.

Did you know, according to a famous study - learning the top 1,000 most frequently used words will enable you to understand up to 87.8% of all oral speech? Quite incredible right? The problem is most students focus on learning the wrong vocabulary. The idea of reading dictionaries to increase vocabulary is the old way of learning. It’s boring, not arranged into topics, plus there’s pages and pages of words you’ll hardly ever use.

For beginning to intermediate students of Japanese. Listen and learn Japanese with two well-known Japanese folktales: "Inch-high Samurai" and "Kaguya-hime", the Moon Princess. The first is about a tiny, yet brave samurai who ends up saving a princess and seeing his wish come true. The second story is the famous moon-princess Kaguya, who was found in a bamboo stalk. "Kaguya-hime" is one of the oldest Japanese tales and perhaps the world’s first science-fiction story.

Master common Japanese particles in the next 30 days, with this innovative, story-based immersion method. Just listen to one chapter per day, complete the exercises and watch as one of the trickiest parts of becoming fluent in Japanese falls into place and improves your speech without a hitch!

「おざなりな返事をする」「なおざりな返事をする」どちらが正しい表現か、あなたはすぐに答えられますか?日本語は、正しく使いこなせば多彩な表現ができる素晴らしい言語です。しかし実際には、言葉の意味や使い方を間違っていたり、正しい敬語を使えていなかったりすることが多々あります。そこでこのオーディオブックでは、書籍『あなたの日本語、ココがおかしい!日本人なら知っておきた大人の言葉づかい166』(中経出版)より、特に間違いやすい表現をピックアップ、ダイジェスト版にしました。二者択一のクイズ形式なので、楽しみながら正しい知識を学ぶことができます。気を利かせたつもりが、恥をかいてしまった……なんてことのないように、繰り返し聞いて“大人の言葉づかい”を身につけましょう。

"The 1000 essential words in Japanese". Japanese is an East Asian language spoken by about 128 million people, primarily in Japan, where it is the national language. How to learn a language differently? Today, language learning is revolutionizing : you do not have to go to traditional language classes anymore. Our learning method : a selection of hundreds of phrases and essential words. You listen to them, you repeat them, and you speak.

藤井聡太棋士、Amazon.comの創立者ジェフ・ベゾス氏、Facebookの創業者マーク・ザッカーバーグ氏、wikipedia創設者ジミー・ウェールズ氏、オバマ大統領なども受けていたモンテッソーリ教育。