Learn Japanese with Manga Volume Two: A Self-Study Language Guide (free online audio)

Have fun learning everyday Japanese with manga comic strips!

If you enjoy manga, you'll love learning Japanese with this book. The language lessons are interspersed with an entertaining manga story, making it easy to learn and remember all the key vocabulary and grammar. The plot picks up where Learn Japanese with Manga Volume 1 left off, following Nuria, a Spanish journalist who is sent to Tokyo to research a news story, where she keeps encountering a mysterious shadow or kage. Use your knowledge of hiragana and katakana from Volume 1 to help you decipher hundreds of new kanji vocabulary words--no romanization!Learn hundreds of useful words and phrases--from how to order in a restaurant to dealing with unexpected events and accidents. Six episodes of a manga serial are woven throughout the book, reinforcing your grasp of the language. The book comes with a bidirectional dictionary and answer keys for all the exercises. Learn how to make compound sentences, relative clauses, how to use honorific and casual speech, and much more!
Learn Japanese with Manga is designed for self-study by young adult learners, but would also be the perfect complement to traditional coursework. Free audio recordings by Japanese native speakers are also available online to help you perfect your pronunciation and listening skills. With the book's focus on casual speech used by young people in Japan today, you'll find yourself speaking, reading, and writing Japanese before you know it!