Basic Japanese for student's 1

A practical conversation text for foreign students aimed at postgraduate students and researchers, a beginner text that will provide an effective learning outcome in the short period. While building up the learner's knowledge of beginner-level grammatical items, the book also covers interviews, presentations, as well as role-play activities, all relevant and useful to the daily life of a post-graduate student. The conversations and exercises are presented in kanji and kana (with furigana readings) plus Romanized letters, as well as with translations into English. Grammar and usage explanations are given in English. Hakase 1 has 15 chapters and comes with a CD which includes example sentences, conversations, and new vocabulary (in Japanese only).