Japanese in 30 Hours Author:Eiichi Kiyooka These lessons in the Japanese language are intended for those English-speaking people who want to learn Japanese in as short a time as possible. The lessons were first developed while the author was an instructor of the Japanese language and history at Columiba University Extension. — At the University the time allotted was only two hours a week ... more »and the students, who were mostly adults already in business, usually gave up the lessons after one semester, because they were learning the language in a hurry for business or for travels. Under these conditions the instructor was obliged to develop a very efficient system of instruction which covered the entire field of the Japanese language with all the superfluity eliminated.
The author supplies at the end of the volume a working vocabulary of Japanese-English and English-Japanese which will no doubt help the student in his study.« less