Reviews by Stone Bridge Press
70 Japanese gestures
Okay, maybe Japanese is a bit hard to learn to speak and write. But there's a lot you can say in Japanese using just your hands, nose, arms, and other forms of suggestive "body" language.
This whimsical look at Japan's "language of no language" introduces 70 gestures that will help you hurl ... read more
Japanese the Manga Way
Japanese difficult? Study boring? Not if you use a "real manga, real Japanese" approach to learning. Presenting all spoken Japanese as a variation of three basic sentence types, Japanese the Manga Way shows you how to build complex constructions step by step. Almost every key grammar point taught ... read more
Japanese Beyond Words
Learning Japanese is a challenge. And, as many students find out, memorizing sentence patterns, vocabulary, and lists of kanji doesn't necessarily make it easy to communicate with Japanese people. Barriers of culture and social etiquette can be just as difficult to overcome as problems of grammar. ... read more