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From http://shop.whiterabbitjapan.com/products/minna-no-nihongo-s…:”Minna no Nihongo” is one of the most popular Japanese language textbooks for classrooms and individuals across the world. Lesson topics including essential grammar, vocabulary, listening and speaking are taught and instilled in students through situational daily conversations. This “Shokyu 1” is essential for beginners who have studied Japanese for less than a 100 hours. From the book: “Minna no Nihongo is aimed at anyone who urgently needs to learn to communicate in Japanese in any situation, whether at work, school, college or in their local community. Although it is an introductory text, efforts have been made to make the exchanges between Japanese and foreign characters in the book reflect social conditions and everyday life as faithfully as possible.” There are 25 lessons, and each contains the following:-Sentence patterns . Example sentences-Conversation-Drills-Practice Using this textbook with its companion ” Translation & Grammatical Notes” will help you understand the lessons efficiently and help reduce frustrating misunderstandings in your studies with easy-to-understand, detailed explanations. “Translation & Grammatical Notes” is available in English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Korean, Indonesian, Thai, and Vietnamese. We highly recommend purchasing The Complete Set (Minna no Nihongo Shokyu 1 Honsatsu, Translation & Grammatical Notes in your native language, and CDs) which includes all the necessary set of tools to most efficiently learn Japanese. Although this Complete Set is aimed at beginners, in order to get the most out of the companion text, “Translation & Grammatical Notes,” you must be familiar with hiragana and katakana. If you don’t already know hiragana, please consider purchasing our set of “Kana Flashcards” along with this product. There are about 46 kana characters, so if you learn 5 to 10 hiragana and katakana per day, you can learn all the kana in as little as a week.It seems this material is intended for intermediate learners as there is very little English contained within. However this seems like a very useful and comprehensive course.The product contains both Minna no Nihongo courses, each comprised of the following parts:- Textbook- Workbook- Video- Listening Comprehension- Kanji- Reading- WritingThis took me many, many hours to collate, correctly order and name (which was especially difficult as I cannot speak any Japanese), so I would really appreciate your thanks.