{"product_id":"2940012280831","title":"SPEAK JAPANESE TODAY! - A Little Language Goes a Long Way.","description":"Japanese for the World!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCompiled by Japanologist\/author Boyé Lafayette De Mente, Speak Japanese Today is designed for anyone who comes in-to contact with Japanese and wants to communicate with them in their own language.\u003cbr\u003e     The first portion of the book provides an introduction to the pronunciation of Japanese and an easy overview of the struc-ture of the language. It also includes basic greetings, farewells, telling time, everyday expressions about the weather, giving directions, telling distances, counting, money, telephoning and much more.\u003cbr\u003e     Speak Japanese Today is unique in that it also provides vo-cabulary and sentences for airline pilots, stewardesses, Im-migration officials, Customs officials, hotel staff, restaurant staff, bartenders, shop clerks, taxi drivers, tour guides, doctors, people hosting Japanese students, and more.\u003cbr\u003e     With a little practice, a person can communicate as many as 500 key concepts using only a 100-word vocabulary.\u003cbr\u003e     Speak Japanese Today contains over 700 key words—which is close to the total number of words most people use in their own language in the course of a day. \u003cbr\u003e     All of the words and expressions in the book are given in Romanized Japanese along with an easy-to-master pronun-ciation phonetic system that uses standard English. Just pro-nounce the phonetics as if they were English, and the sounds come out \"in Japanese!\"","brand":"Phoenix Books \/ Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47145322479856,"sku":"2940012280831","price":4.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012280831_p0.jpg?v=1763554290","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012280831","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}