A new and exciting approach to basic Japanese for young adults<br><br>The Association for Japanese-Language Teaching (AJALT), renowned for its <em>Japanese for Busy People</em> series, has developed a comprehensive course for teaching Japanese to young adulsts in English-speaking countries.<br><br><em>Japanese for Young People</em> is a new three-level series designed primarily for junior-high and high school curricula encouraging systematic Japanese-language acquisition through an enjoyable but structured learning process. With an emphasis on coordination of structure and verbal communication skills, this second <em>Student Book</em> introduces more building-blocks of Japanese grammer through Key Sentences, Dialogues, Exercises, and Tasks.<br><br>This <em>Student Book</em> is accompanied by a set of three cassette tapes and a fully-illustrated <em>Kanji Workbook</em> which features over 100 pages of activities and games to familiarize young students with ninety of the most basic Chinese characters introduced in this book.<br><br>With charming illustrations and cultural notes throughout, <em>Japanese for Young People</em> provides an unintimidating start to learning one of the world's most difficult languages.