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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Speak Japanese Now: Read Hiragana and Katakana, Speak from Day One - 15 Lessons, No Grammar Tables

Speak Japanese Now: Read Hiragana and Katakana, Speak from Day One - 15 Lessons, No Grammar Tables

Verbolino

Paperback

Series: The Verbolino Method, Book 17

Foreign Language GeneralJapan

ISBN13: 9798174610125
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 15 2026
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.25 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Two alphabets, ninety-two letters, one afternoon. Then you are reading.

Japanese is written three ways at once, and anybody who promises you can read it in a weekend is selling something. What is true - and what almost no course starts with - is that two of the three are alphabets of forty-six sounds each, and they are genuinely learnable in an afternoon. Hiragana carries the grammar. Katakana carries thousands of words borrowed from English, which means it turns a Japanese menu into something you can half read on your first day.

This book teaches both, in the first two lessons, and then makes you use them.

After that, no grammar tables. None. Most Japanese courses open with particle charts and verb conjugation groups, and most learners are gone by chapter three. This one hands you whole phrases that are correct exactly as printed, arranged so each one quietly sets up the next.

What you will actually be able to do:

  • Read hiragana and katakana - slowly and badly at first, which is where everybody starts
  • Greet anybody correctly, in the one politeness level that is safe with a shopkeeper, a stranger and somebody's grandmother alike
  • Ask what, where and how much - one sentence shape, three questions
  • Count and pay, including the two number systems and the trap that four and seven have two readings each
  • Order in a restaurant and survive a convenience store - the whole till exchange, in order
  • Get across a city, buy a ticket, direct a taxi
  • Introduce yourself in the fixed four-move shape Japanese expects
  • Handle it when things go wrong - ask somebody to slow down, report a lost bag, say where it hurts

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