Textbooks We Will Use in the Courses

Japanese 1 (JA 101) uses the Nakama 1a textbook (paperback 2009 second edition) and Japanese 2 (JA 102) uses the next volume, Nakama 1b (paperback 2009 second edition) by Hatasa, Hatasa, and Makino. We do not sell these textbooks, they must be purchased either online from a bookseller or at your local university bookstore (we cannot guarantee they will be in stock). You may purchase used textbooks but not used workbooks! The University of Alabama uses these same textbooks for the in-class courses so if you decide to attend UA, you do not need to repeat these classes as long as you earn a C- or better and have enrolled for college credit.

Japanese 1 covers Chapters 1-6 (all of the Nakama 1a book) and Japanese 2 continues with Nakama 1b, Chapters 7-12 (all of the Nakama 1b book). Here is a PDF file that describes the curriculum of these two textbooks: Nakama Textbook Overview. If you have studied from a different book or system and want to take JA 102 without having taken our JA 101 course, look at this file carefully and see if you know everything in the Nakama 1a book. You MUST at least be able to read and write all hiragana and katakana before you can enroll in JA 102.

Be sure you do not buy the older first edition textbook. There is also a textbook called Nakama 1 which has chapters 1-12 in it (which covers material for both JA 101 AND JA 102), but you only save a few dollars by buying the big huge volume. Also, the page numbers will not match up with our Lesson Plans. The books you should buy look like this:

Textbook for JA 101	Textbook for JA 102
ISBN10: 0-618-96628-5, ISBN13: 978-0-618-96628-8 © 2009 | Paperback | 304 pages	ISBN10: 0-547-20840-5, ISBN13: 978-0-547-20840-4 © 2009 | Paperback | 320 pages

The publisher of these books is Cengage and you can shop for books online here:
http://www.cengagebrain.com/market/index.html or you can use Amazon.com or whatever you prefer. There is an accompanying workbook for these texts which we will also use, but if you are going to be faxing or scanning the pages it is better if you print them from Nihongo Web on white paper.

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