Welcome to Japanese: A Beginners Survey of the Language; Learn Conversational Japanese, Key Vocabulary and Phrases

This is a concise and user–friendly introduction to the Japanese language.

Japanese has too often been treated by Westerners as an exotic curiosity, but the reality is that it is a functional language spoken as a mother tongue by more than 125 million people, and ranks as the ninth most spoken language in the world. In the present global age, an age characterized by a vast range of Japanese products including electronic games and anime, more and more Westerners are in one way or another inte...