Japanese in MangaLand 2: Basic to Intermediate Level, Vol. 2 » (Bilingual)

Marc Bernabe is a Japanese-Spanish/Catalan translator and interpreter, working mainly on manga and anime translations. He also specializes in language and Japanese culture didactics for foreigners, and he combines his professional and academic activity with the Internet web page Nipoweb.com, where he is founder, co-webmaster and regular contributor. His published works are Japanese in MangaLand, Vol.1, the Spanish adaptation of James W. Heisig's Remembering the Kanji series, and other books on Japan and the Japanese language aimed at the Spanish speaking public.

Like the original Japanese in MangaLand, the second volume in the series combines the phenomenal popularity of manga with language instruction to make learning Japanese easier and a lot more fun than with traditional approaches. Japanese in MangaLand Vol. 2 helps even beginning students master the basics of conversational Japanese with fifteen lessons including drills, the patterns of Japanese grammar and more than 360 kanji characters to assist in the learning process. Eleven of these lessons cover such grammar topics as intransitive/transitive verbs, particles, honorific expressions, and even dialects and proverbs. The four conversational lessons will prove invaluable to readers traveling to Japan by teaching them phrases and expressions to use at airports, hotels, shops and restaurants. Another new feature in this second volume is the culture notes section, which provides insight into life in Japan today.