Basic Japanese: Learn to Speak Everyday Japanese in 10 Carefully Structured Lessons (MP3 Audio CD Included)
Samuel E. Martinwas a master teacher of the Japanese language and a major force in language learning in the postwar U.S. He received his undergraduate and master's degrees in Oriental languages from the University of California at Berkeley and his Ph.D. in linguistics from Yale University. At Yale he served as chairman of the Department of East and South Asian Languages and Literatures and the Department of Linguistics. He is the author of numerous books and papers on Japanese and Korean, including the definitiveA Reference Grammar of JapaneseandA Reference Grammar of Korean.Eriko Satois lecturer of Japanese and Japanese linguistics and the director of the Pre-College Japanese Program and the Teacher Certification Program for Japanese at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where she received her Ph.D. in Linguistics in 1996. She authoredJapanese for Dummies(Wiley, 2002),Japanese Demystified(McGraw Hill, 2008), andContemporary Japanese: A Textbook for College Students(Tuttle, 2005), and co-authoredMy First Japanese Kanji Book(Tuttle, 2009) andEssential Japanese Grammar(Tuttle, 2012).