Yookoso! Invitation to Contemporary Japanese Student Edition

Yookoso! (Welcome!) An Invitation to Contemporary Japanese, is the first volume of a two-volume series for beginning Japanese courses. Based on modern principles of second-language acquisition, it was the first beginning Japanese text to integrate the teaching of all four language skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing) and to be accompanied by a full complement of ancillary materials. Grammar is treated as a tool for developing the ability to communicate in Japanese, not as the focal point of the text. The rich illustration program, including photographs, line drawings, and realia, provides an attractive context for language learning.A brand-new interior design provides an up-to-date and contemporary look for the materials and enhances the pedagogy.|New photographs, line art, and realia also make the materials fresh and in step with today's contemporary Japanese culture.|Activities and cultural content have been revised to keep the material fresh and up to date.|An interactive CD-ROM, specific to this volume, provides an engaging review of vocabulary and grammar as well as video segments that help facilitate comprehension skills. The result is a fun, interactive language experience that brings Japanese language and culture to life.|A new Online Learning Center, with additional exercises and resources, including the full audio program as Premium Content, further enriches the Third Edition.|Each chapter of Yookoso! has a cultural theme, around which the vocabulary, activities, grammar, readings, and cultural notes of the chapter are organized.|Listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills are systematically developed in each chapter. In particular, many functional and real-life reading materials are included, with accompanying activities.|Student interaction in Japanese is encouraged via partner/pair practice, interview-based activities, and role plays.|The text is highly student-centered, offering cultural information and learning hints throughout.|The attractive art program of photographs, line drawings, and realia enhances the material and appeals to the students.