Beginners' Japanese

Learn to speak, read, write and understand Japanese!

Love, Travel, Study, Work, Friendship-whatever your reason for wanting to learn, Beginners' Japanese will help you to:

- Communicate naturally in everyday situations.
- Build your confidence with easy-to-follow explanations and plenty of practice activities.
- Understand and pronounce Japanese easily with online audio.
- Become familiar with the three Japanese writing systems (Kanji, Hiragana and Katakana).
- Remember what you learn with our effective Discovery Method.
- Focus your learning and track your progress with practical tools and planners.

Access the audio for this course for free by downloading it to the Teach Yourself Library app or streaming it on library.teachyourself.com. 

Is this course for me?
Beginners' Japanese is for absolute beginners and those who've had some previous experience with the language and want to refresh their knowledge. Clear and simple explanations make the course appropriate and accessible to anyone learning Japanese. There are extensive illustrations and tools to help you plan your studies and track your progress, all designed to support learning on your own. This course is also ideal to use with one-to-one tutoring and as a classroom course, and it's the perfect resource to pair with a language-learning app.

Where do I go next?
Continue learning with Teach Yourself Complete Japanese and Japanese Tutor
Have some fun with our Short Stories in Japanese for Intermediate Learners by Olly Richards'.


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