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CONTENTS (Mokuji) Table of Contents KEY QUESTIONS 5 Greetings & introductions, farewells & other key expressions (7) 6 Asking the way / Celebrating being lost 12 Thanking someone for a meal, saying goodbye, saying thank you 12 Apologising, asking permission 13 Making & refusing requests 13 Calling on neighbours, going on holiday 14 Casual conversation 15 Personal pronouns 18 Connecting sentences & improving the flow 19 Basic conjunctions (sentence joiners) 19 More conjunctions connecting words and phrases 21 Grammar & particles grammatical relations between words or phrases 36 VERBS - form types, descriptions, conversion rules 46 VERB CONJUGATION TABLES (MS Excel) 62 Notes about verbs 70 Adjectives (list), opposites, notes about adjectives (74) 71 ADVERB LISTS (sorted by English & Japanese) 77 KEYS WORDS, OBJECTS, FOOD At the airport, at passport control 80 Countries, languages, nationalities 80 Japan place names 81 Seasons and weather, nature key words (83), climbing mountains (84) 81 Plants and trees, at the beach, snowy days, harbor 84 Animals (85), parts of animals, religion (86) 85 Dinosaurs, etc., night sky, space, planets 86 Telling the time, weeks years, expressing time 87 Days of the week (91), dates of the month (91), months of year (92) 91 Japanese public holidays 94 Occupations, interests and hobbies (96) 95 Music 97 Construction materials & jobs 97 GARDENING WORDS AND PHRASES 97 Insects/bugs, on the farm, garden 98 Counting people & objects 99 Weights, measurements & shapes 105 Eating, food (106), food descriptions (107) 105 COOKING, seasoning, parts of animals & fish 107

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Having friends to dinner 108 ENTERTAINMENT Key words 109 In a theatre/movies, charges and cancellations 109 At the movies 109 At a restaurant/caf, Japanese food definitions 110 Teas, onigiri, alcohols, wines 110-111 Ordering, serving sizes (113), general restaurant words 111 Sushi restaurant, ramen restaurant 114 Paying 114 Fast food joints, going out for a drink 114 Karaoke, Internet cafes, etc. 115 Sports and outdoor activities 115 Japanese festivals 115 SHOPPING, AROUND THE HOUSE Shopping & general words 116 Department store departments 117 Food shopping, special diets and food allergies (119) 118 Clothes and accessories, whats it made of (materials) (120) 119 Trying on clothes, shopping for shoes, discount terms 120 Internet shopping 121 Shop names 122 Places, objects, clothes, location, colours 123 Location, colours, how much is it? 124 At the post office 125 At the chemist, medicines 126 At the bank 126 At the bike shop, at the hair dresser 127 At the library 128 Souvenir shopping 128 Delivery services sending bags, suitcases, boxes, etc. 128 Houses and buildings, around the house: parts of houses 129 Types of buildings, kitchen, bedroom, bathroom 129 House action verbs 129 In the house, describing breakdowns (130) 130 Tools 131 TRAVEL AND GETTING AROUND Key words 132 Planning a trip Internet web page booking 132 Confirming a room reservation 133 Travelling by car, parts of a car 133 TRANSPORT, travelling by train (135), taxis (136) 133 Travelling, buying express train tickets, missing a train 137 Hotels, accommodation, checking in 138 Hotel words and expressions, problems 139 Hot springs, onsen, Japanese inns (140) 139 Inside a room in a Japanese inn 140 Using the in-room telephone, checking out & paying the bill 140 Asking & giving directions, orientation points, giving directions 143 Exact (relative) location

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FAMILIES, CHILDREN & THE BODY Families, people and kids 145-146 Baby/childcare 147 Types of nursury 147 Baby & childbirth-related terms 147 CHILD ACCIDENTS & SEEING THE DOCTOR 148 CHILDHOOD ILLNESSES and MEDICAL TERMS 148 Children's play names of toys, play equipment, etc. 148

Admiring a baby 149 Asking about a kindergarten 149 Introducing yourself at kindergarten or school 150 Phoning the kindergarten/school 150 Writing an absence note 150 Meeting your child's teacher 150

In school, schools, school rooms (151), subjects (151) 150 Pre-school , grade school, junior high/high school 151 Parts of the body, body action verbs, moving/movements, feelings 153-154 Personal condition, expressing emotions 155 Personal characteristics 155 BUSINESS In the office, ranks, jobs (general) & office objects 155 Seniority in a company 157 Introductions, introducing yourself: exchanging business cards 157 Introducing people, meeting someone for the first time 158 Starting a conversation, other words and expressions 159 Gratitude and apology, farewell 159 Asking someone for something, expressions of declining 160 Refusing a request, making a proposal 160 ANSWERING THE PHONE (range of expressions) 161 Answering an outside call for someone else 161 When your boss is not at his/her desk 162 If the person can't get to the phone 162 When the call is for someone else 163 Leaving a message, using your cell phone 163 Apologizing/being late to an appointment 164 Asking for directions, calling in sick, asking permission 164 Making an appointment, asking for someone, starting a conversation 164 Interupting someone at work, general phrases (166) 165 Business Japanese 166 Other words and expressions 166 Taking clients out to dinner, leaving somewhere 167 Computer terminology 167 More office vocabulary, types of company, departments (169) 168 Internal and external e-mail messages 169 Business Japanese vocabulary MISCELLANEOUS Lets do stuff! 171 Gift giving 172 Expressions and verbs for giving and receiving 173 Sentence structures 176 Describing past activities 178 PLAIN (conversational) FORM 180

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Deletions 183 Keigo: sonkeigo, kenjougo & teineigo, polite family terms 185 Polite family terms 188 Additional notes 189 SENTENCE STRUCTURES Amari (189) Arimasu (189) Baai wa (193) Bakari (194) -ba yokatta (194) Chikaku (194) Chinami ni (195) Demo (195) Deshou (196) Kamo shiremasen/kamoshirenai (196) Dochira (197) Yori (198) Dono gurai (199) Dono kata (199) Donna (199) Donno koto (200) Dou (200) Dore (200) Doshite (200) Dou iu, donna (201) Dou yatte (201) Hajimeru (201) Hazu (201) Hodo (202) Hoshii (202) Hou ga ii (203) Hotondo (203) Ichiban (204) to iimasu (205) Ikenai (205) imasu iru (205) Irimasu/iru (205) Iro iro (205) Issho (206) Itademasen ka? (206) -to itte imashita (206) Itsu (206) Jibun (206) Ka dou ka (207) Kana (207) Kanarazu (207) Kitto (207) te kudasaimasen ka? (207) te kure (208) Koto (208) Kota ga arimasu (208) Koto ni shimasu (209) Kuru/kimasu (210) Kute (210) Mada...masen(211) Mada (211) Mama (211) Mieru/miemasu (212) Mimasu (212) to misemasu(212) Mo (213) mo ii desu (213) Mono (213) Moshi (214 Motte (214) Mou (215) ....n desu (215 Na (217) Nai (217) Nakanaka (217) Nakereba narimasen (217) Nakute (218) Nani (218) Nara (218) Narimasu (219) COMBINING SENTENCES (219) ni suru/shimasu (221) Okimasu (222) Omoimasu (222) to omote imasu (223) Tsumori desu (223) Uchi ni (224) Yotei desu (224) Owaru (225) Rashii (225) no o shitte imasu(225) Shi (226) Shika (226) Shimaimashita (227) Shimasu (2278 Sou desu/sou da (227) Sugimasu/sugiru (229) Sukoshi (229) Suru/shimasu (229) Tabun (230) Verb-tai (230) Tame ni (231) Tara (232) -tara ii desu ka? (234) -tatte (234) -te kimasu (234) - to iu imi (235) Tokidoki (235) Tokoro (235) Touri ni (237) Wake desu (238) Wasuremashita (238) - nikui desu (239) no yameru (239) You desu (239) You ni (240) You ni narimashita (240) You ni shite kudasai (241) Zannen (241) Zehi (208) Zenzen (241) Zuibun (241) CHARACTERS AND WRITING TIPS Hiragana & katakana characters and stroke order 243 Tips for writing kanji 244 Kanji word list 185-192 MISCELLANEOUS WORDS AND PHRASES 244 Politics, officialdom & economics terms 254 Official words and expressions 254 At the immigration office 254 Forgetting to renew your visa 254 Losing your foreigners registration card 255 Tax and insurance 255 Economic terminology, miscellaneous words 255 Notes (space) 256 EMERGENCY ESSENTIALS, HOSPITALS / DOCTORS Reporting a robbery at the koban, general words 257 HOSPITALS / DOCTORS, illnesses (list), types of pain (260) 259 When do you feel pain?, expressions of general problems 260 AT THE DOCTOR, AT THE DENTIST, visting the pediatrician (263) 261 Medical departments and wards, other signs and notices 263 MEDICAL DICTIONARY TERMS 264 In the event of an earthquake 267 Fire! 267 MISCELLANEOUS VOCABULARY LIST 267

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