Japanese Workbook Vol.13

About this book

YOUR JAPANESE WORKS ON PAPER, ON SCREEN, ON THE ROAD AND IN THE CLINIC. NOW MAKE IT WORK WHERE YOUR MONEY MOVES: 300 EXPRESSIONS FOR SHOPS, MARKETS, REGISTERS AND BANKS, 12 SHOPPING DOCUMENTS, 12 WRITING TASKS.

Finished Vol.1 through Vol.12? Your Japanese handles daily life, devices, journeys and health. But shopping is where it is used every single day: the price you must read correctly, the discount whose conditions you must check, the change you must count, the return you must ask for politely, the transfer you must not get wrong, the household budget you must explain at home. This is the volume that teaches the expressions buying and paying in Japan run on, and makes you write with them.

Inside: 300 practical expressions in 20 groups organised by scene — before you go shopping, entering a shop and browsing, finding what you want, sizes, colours and trying on, prices and price tags, discounts, sales and bargains, the supermarket and food shops, markets, fairs and street stalls, clothing, shoes and accessories, electronics, books and daily goods, paying at the register, cash, coins and change, cards, phones and points, receipts, returns and exchanges, ordering, delivery and pick-up, banking, cash machines and transfers, household money and budgeting, saving and rising prices, gifts, celebrations and money envelopes, and problems with lost wallets and mistakes. Every expression comes with its reading, romaji, meaning, a short usage note — the scene, the desk or person it suits, the level of politeness, the trap to avoid — three natural example sentences in Japanese and English, and a practice space for three sentences of your own: your shops, your wallet, your next sale.

Plus 12 graded writing tasks in three stages — short messages, messages that handle a situation, then full pieces (a shopping list memo, asking a shop about stock, reporting a price to your family, a pocket-money memo, asking for a size exchange, a letter about discount conditions, changing a delivery day, discussing a household shortfall, a monthly household plan, why you chose a gift, comparison notes for a big purchase, a report on saving ideas and results) — each with a model answer that really uses this volume's expressions, a self-check list and a full writing grid. And 12 readings of real shopping documents: a shopping street winter sale postcard, a supermarket points card guide, a department store delivery and wrapping guide, a morning market guide, an electronics store warranty explanation, a bank fee change notice, clothing shop return rules, a traders association voucher guide, a shoe shop pick-up notice, a hometown products fair announcement, a town newsletter column on the household budget and a gift wrapping and noshi guide. Every reading in real Japanese, with a full English translation, key words and questions.

26,500+ guided practice squares. Review quizzes close every group, with a full answer key and an expression index at the back. A 12-week study plan in the front matter (25 expressions, one writing task and one reading a week) takes you through the whole book. All 300 expressions and all 12 readings are entirely new — zero overlap, no exceptions, against Vol.1–Vol.12: after this volume the series totals 4,200 words, 300 patterns, 1,500 expressions and 156 readings. An honest note: this book teaches the language of shopping and everyday money, not financial advice — the sentences for asking, comparing and checking, with fees and rules left to confirm at the counter in front of you.

Inside: 300 expressions with usage notes and example sentences · 12 graded writing tasks with models and checklists · 12 readings of shopping documents · quizzes and answer key · 12-week plan.

Made in Japan: this workbook was written by Japanese author Aki Wakamatsu and produced and published in Japan by Takikawa TOKOTOKO Kids LLC — a Japan-made workbook, written from inside the shops, markets and counters it teaches.

Written and created in Japan by Japanese author Aki Wakamatsu. Published by Takikawa TOKOTOKO Kids LLC, a Japanese publisher in Hokkaido, Japan. Authentic Japanese content, carefully made in Japan — not mass-produced.