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Contents of Beginning Japanese, Part 2

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Contents for:   Beginning Japanese, Part 1


LESSON 21:  Inns And Hotels   1
Basic Dialogues   1
Notes on the Basic Dialogues   6
Grammatical Notes   8
    1. Adjectivals: Gerund   8
    2. Compound Verbals   9
    3. Particle sika 'only,' 'nothing but'   10
    4. Ni┍hoňma de ke┑kkoo desu   11
    5. Informal Requests Ending in ku┍rena┑i ka   11
    6. Counters: -ma 'room,' -baň 'night'   12
Drills   12
Supplementary Conversation   19
Exercises   21
     
LESSON 22:  Services   23
Basic Dialogues   23
Notes on the Basic Dialogues   27
Grammatical Notes   27
    1. hazu   27
    2. -- so┑o √da   28
    3. Negative Requests   29
    4. Gerund + mo; Permission   29
    5. Counter -guramu   31
Drills   31
Question Supplement   40
Short Supplementary Dialogues   40
Exercises   43
     
LESSON 23:  Clothing   45
Basic Dialogues   45
Additional Vocabulary   51
Notes on the Basic Dialogues   52
Grammatical Notes   52
    1. Extended Predicates   52
    2. Verbals: Honorific Equivalents Ending in √da   56
    3. Particle si 'and'   57
    4. Nominals Ending in -sa   58
    5. Multiple Modifiers   58
Drills   59
Short Supplementary Dialogues   65
Exercises   68
     
LESSON 24:  Professions And Occupations   70
Basic Dialogues   70
Additional Vocabulary   74
Notes on the Basic Dialogues   75
Grammatical Notes   77
    1. yo┑o   77
    2. Alternate Negative Adverbial; -zu ni and -nai de   79
    3. da┍ro┑o   80
    4. Particle mo Following a Number   81
    5. ko┍to┑   81
Drills   82
Supplementary Conversations (with questions)   90
Exercises   91
     
LESSON 25:  At The Office   93
Basic Dialogues   93
Notes on the Basic Dialogues   96
Grammatical Notes   97
    1. The Potential   97
    2. Prohibition: Gerund + wa + √ikenai   100
    3. Indefinites: Interrogatives + ka   100
    4. Questions without ka   101
    5. Verbal Stems in Purpose Expressions   101
    6. -zyuu 'throughout'   102
Drills   102
Question Supplement   110
Short Supplementary Dialogues   111
Exercises   113
     
LESSON 26:  Weather   114
Basic Dialogues   114
Additional Vocabulary   118
Notes on the Basic Dialogues   119
Grammatical Notes   120
    1. Verbals: Informal Tentative   120
    2. -- to √o┍mo┑u   120
    3. Verbal Tentative + to + √suru   121
    4. Polite Adjectivals   122
    5. Nominals Ending in -soo   123
    6. Intransitive Verbals + √ku┑ru   124
    7. Compound Verbals Ending in √-hazimeru   124
Drills   125
Short Supplementary Dialogues   133
Exercises   135
     
LESSON 27:  Outings   136
Basic Dialogues   136
Notes on the Basic Dialogues   141
Grammatical Notes   142
    1. The Representative   142
    2. Interrogative + mo   144
    3. do┑ko e i├tte┤ mo   146
    4. Sentence-final Gerund [+ ne┑e] in Non-request Sentences   147
    5. Verbal + made   147
    6. Particle ni of Reference   148
    7. Pluralizing Suffixes   148
Drills   148
Basic Dialogues: Restatement (with questions)   156
Short Supplementary Dialogues   157
Exercises   158
     
LESSON 28:  Theater   159
Basic Dialogues   159
Additional Vocabulary   163
Notes on the Basic Dialogues   164
Grammatical Notes   165
    1. The Conditional   165
    2. More About Nominal no 'one[s]'   167
    3. -- no ni (wa)   168
    4. tu┍zuita se┑ki   168
    5. Compound Adjectivals Ending in √-niku┑i and √-yasu┑i   169
Drills   169
Question Supplement   176
Supplementary Conversation   176
Exercises   178
     
LESSON 29:  Renting A House   180
Basic Dialogues   180
Notes on the Basic Dialogues   185
Grammatical Notes   185
    1. Gerund Meaning 'because'   185
    2. -- no ni 'in spite of the fact that -- '   186
    3. Quoted Alternate Questions   187
    4. -- to site   188
    5. Enumeration   189
Drills   189
Question Supplement   196
Exercises   197
     
LESSON 30:  Renting A House (cont.)   198
Basic Dialogues   198
Additional Vocabulary   202
Notes on the Basic Dialogues   202
Grammatical Notes   203
    1. to┍koro┑   203
    2. -- ka mo sirenai   204
    3. -- ni yoru to   204
    4. Counters: -tubo, -zyoo   205
    5. More About -ğu┑rai   206
Drills   206
Supplementary Conversation   213
Exercises   216
     
LESSON 31:  At A Department Store   218
Basic Dialogues   218
Additional Vocabulary   222
Notes on the Basic Dialogues   223
Grammatical Notes   224
    1. -- ko┍to┑ ğa √┍a┑ru   224
    2. 'Before', 'While', and 'After'   226
    3. na┑ňka  ~  na┑do   228
    4. Compound Nominals Ending in -kata   229
    5. Ordinal Numbers   229
Drills   229
Question Supplement   238
Exercises   238
     
LESSON 32:  Sightseeing   240
Basic Dialogues   240
Additional Vocabulary   246
Notes on the Basic Dialogues   247
Grammatical Notes   248
    1. The Provisional   248
    2. 'Must'   250
    3. ' The more -- , the more--'   251
    4. -- ko┍to┑ ni √suru   252
    5. a┑ru koto wa ├a┤ru   253
    6. mo┍no┑ Referring to Habitual Action   253
    7. -- ni ┍tu┑ite   254
    8. Particles: Sentence-final to mo   254
    9. Counter -heň   255
Drills   255
Supplementary Dialogues   264
Basic Dialogues: Restatement   268
Exercises   268
     
LESSON 33:  House Repairs   270
Basic Dialogues   270
Additional Vocabulary   275
Notes on the Basic Dialogues   276
Grammatical Notes   277
    1. The Causative   277
    2. Particle to 'with' Following Inflected Words   280
    3. -zu┑tu   282
    4. uti Preceded by Negative   282
    5. -- ko┍to┑ wa ├na┤i   282
Drills   283
Supplementary Dialogues   291
Exercises   295
     
LESSON 34:  Personal History   296
Basic Dialogues   296
Additional Vocabulary   301
Notes on the Basic Dialogues   302
Grammatical Notes   304
    1. The Passive   304
    2. The Passive Causative   308
    3. i┑nai  ~  i┑ğai   309
    4. Counters: -bai and -baňti   310
Drills   310
Supplementary Dialogues   318
Exercises   322
     
LESSON 35:  Among Friends   323
Basic Dialogues   323
Additional Vocabulary   329
Notes on the Basic Dialogues   329
Grammatical Notes   331
    1. ra┍si┑i   331
    2. -- zya nai ka   333
    3. Honorific and Humble Nominals   333
    4. Informal Imperatives   334
    5. -nağara 'although'   336
    6. Fractions   336
    7. Particles: ka 'or,' ba┑kari 'only,' mono 'because'   337
    8. Sentence Particles: kai, sa   339
    9. -ğo┑to ni   340
    10. -- ka sira   340
    11. wa┍ka┑rya sinai   340
Drills   341
Supplementary Dialogues   351
Exercises   357
     
APPENDIX I   359
A. Summary of Verbals   359
B. Summary of Adjectivals   363
C. Summary of the Copula da   367
     
APPENDIX II   368
A. na Nominals   368
B. Counters   369
C. Table of Time Expressions   371
     
JAPANESE-ENGLISH GLOSSARY   373
INDEX TO THE GRAMMATICAL NOTES   407
     
 
 
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