Japanese for All Occasions: Mastering Speech Styles from Casual to Honorific

In Japanese, register — the way you change your words depending on who you are speaking to — plays a key role. The rules of register in Japanese are far more complicated than they are in English, but until now there hasn't been a book that lays it all out in an accessible format. Japanese for All Occasions is a much-needed introduction to this bewildering aspect of the language, aimed at intermediate students and above.

Through 57 dialogues, veteran teacher Taeko Kamiya shows learners how t...