Japanese Workbook Vol.28

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Japanese Workbook Vol.28: Beauty, Fashion & Appearance Japanese — The Japanese of Looking Cared-For

The finish you must describe so the salon can repeat it. The garment you must check in motion before it is yours. The advice you must ask for at the cosmetics counter without the purchase being assumed. The alteration you must request while the tear is still small. If your life in Japan includes a mirror — and whose does not — this is the Japanese that grooming and dress run on, and it cannot be improvised at the salon door.

Part 1 — 300 practical expressions in 20 scene groups Skin care basics, hair care, at the hair salon, makeup, nails and hands, choosing clothes by colour and pattern, fit and trying on, shoes, bags and small things, kimono and yukata, seasons and weather, at the clothing shop, at the cosmetics counter, alterations, repairs and cleaning, barbers and grooming services, mirrors and the final check, complimenting a look, dress codes and occasions, shopping with company, caring for clothes, and morning routines. Every expression includes its reading, romaji, English meaning, a usage note (the scene, the care to take, the rule to remember, the words to confirm), three example sentences in Japanese and English, and a ruled practice space for three sentences of your own.

Part 2 — 12 writing tasks in three stages Short notes of grooming and dress (booking a salon and saying what you want, writing the steps of your morning skin care, telling the clerk what you found in the fitting room, asking for advice at the cosmetics counter), messages that handle a situation (a day of shopping with a friend, asking for an alteration, getting ready for a day out in kimono, thinking through what to wear for the occasion), and full written pieces (looking back over a day's getting ready, complimenting a friend on a look that suits them, working through the seasonal change of clothes, caring for clothes so they last) — each with a model answer that really uses this volume's expressions, a self-check list and a full writing grid.

Part 3 — 12 readings on beauty, fashion and grooming How to wash the face and care for the skin, booking at the hair salon and saying the finish you want, makeup tools and the order of use, thinking about colour matching in clothes, how to try clothes on and what to check, preparing to wear a kimono and a yukata, choosing shoes and fitting them to your feet, asking for advice at the cosmetics counter, reading laundry labels and handling clothes, asking for alterations and repairs to clothes, choosing what to wear for the occasion, and the order of getting ready in the morning — each with a full translation, five key words and three comprehension questions.

Series integrity: zero overlap, no exceptions All 300 expressions and all 12 reading titles were checked item by item against everything in Vol.1–Vol.27 (10,200 headwords and 324 reading titles): overlap zero. Across the twenty-eight volumes you now train 4,200 words, 300 sentence patterns, 6,000 practical expressions and 336 readings. One honest note: bodies, tastes and customs differ by person and by town — this book teaches you to ask rather than assuming, and it is a language workbook, not a book of beauty treatment or medical advice: it claims no effect for any product or treatment, and teaches you instead to name a state, ask a question and say the finish you want.

For learners who have finished Vol.1–Vol.27 or who already read and write Japanese at an advanced level — and above all for anyone who wants their appearance in Japan to be carried by their own words, not by pointing and hope.