Survival Japanese How to Communicate Without Fuss or Fear

by Boye De Mente

A completely phoneticized Japanese language book that makes it possible for anyone to communicate hundreds of things clearly and instantly without any previous experience with the language.

(PRWEB) March 14, 2005 -- Speak Japanese Like a Native Instantly! It seems that the word has gotten out that most Japanese speak English so it is not necessary for foreign businessmen or visitors to worry about communicating with people when they are in Japan. That rumor is not true. Somewhere around 15 percent of Japans teenagers and adults speak English well enough to communicate on a basic level. At a rough guess, some five or six percent of all adult Japanese speak English fairly well to good.
    
Not surprisingly, the Japanese who speak English fairly-well-to-good are concentrated in the educational system, in international business operations, in the international travel industry, in government ministries involved with foreign affairs, and in other professions where English is an essential skill.
    
Once you step outside of any of these categories and selected individuals within them! the chances of the people you encounter understanding and speaking English well enough to communicate, even on a basic level, are no better than one in a hundred.
    
So what is the tourist or the short-time business visitor to do? He or she can get a copy of "Survival Japanese How to Communicate Without Fuss or Fear," by Boy�Lafayette De Mente, the author of a whole slew of pioneer books on the Japanese culture, from the language and management to the famed "mizu shobai" (mee-zoo show-by), or water business which is a euphemism for the bars, cabarets, geisha houses, massage parlors and other pink places that make up the night-time entertainment trades.
    
"Survival Japanese" contains virtually every Japanese word and phrase the newcomer is likely to need to survive in Japanand the unique feature is that every term and phrase in the book is also rendered in English phonetics (as well as Japanese script). All you have to do is pronounce the phonetics as English, and they come out in Japanese.
     Good morning, for example is Ohayo gozaimasu in Japanese. Rendered in phonetics it is Oh-hah-yoh go-zie-mahss. Lets eat! is Tabemasho! in Japanese, and Tah-bay-mah-show in phonetics. Its that easy!
    
"Survival Japanese" is a Tuttle publication, and is available from Internet booksellers and the usual bookstores.
    
For those who plan on being in Japan for more than several days or a few weeks, De Mente has another title: "Instant Japanese Everything You Need to Speak Japanese in 100 Key Words and Phrases!"
    
Like "Survival Japanese," this book also features phonetics that eliminates the problem of having to learn how to pronounce Japanese. Its chapters include: Meeting People; Going Shopping; Asking Directions, Riding the Subway, Ordering Food & Drinks, and How to Count in Japanese.
    
All of De Mentes 30-plus books on Japan are available online and from leading bookstores.

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