Japanese Workbook Vol.14

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YOUR JAPANESE WORKS ON PAPER, ON SCREEN, ON THE ROAD, IN THE CLINIC AND AT THE SHOP COUNTER. NOW MAKE IT WORK WHERE YOU WORK: 300 EXPRESSIONS FOR JOB HUNTING, INTERVIEWS, MEETINGS, PHONE CALLS AND EMAIL, 12 WORKPLACE DOCUMENTS, 12 WRITING TASKS.

Finished Vol.1 through Vol.13? Your Japanese handles daily life, devices, journeys, health and money. But work is where it is used with the highest stakes: the vacancy you must read correctly, the interview answer you must shape, the report you must not delay, the opinion you must give in the meeting, the message you must take without a mistake, the email you must not make rude, the leave you must hand over properly, the job you must leave well. This is the volume that teaches the expressions working life in Japan runs on, and makes you write with them.

Inside: 300 practical expressions in 20 groups organised by scene — looking for work and applying, the job interview, the first day and introducing yourself, office routine and daily work, reporting, informing and consulting, joining and following meetings, opinions, proposals and decisions in meetings, making and receiving phone calls, phone messages and transfers, writing and sending email, email replies, requests and apologies, schedules, deadlines and time off, instructions, tasks and progress, documents, files and data, computers, systems and trouble, visitors, reception and showing around, business trips and working outside, colleagues, teamwork and helping out, workplace manners, rules and safety, and pay, contracts, promotion and leaving. Every expression comes with its reading, romaji, meaning, a short usage note — the scene, the person it suits, the level of politeness, the trap to avoid — three natural example sentences in Japanese and English, and a practice space for three sentences of your own: your workplace, your manager, your next meeting.

Plus 12 graded writing tasks in three stages — short messages, messages that handle a situation, then full pieces (a short application message, asking to change an interview date, a self-introduction memo for day one, reporting a finished task, coordinating a meeting date, a telephone message note, reporting that you will be late or absent, a progress report on materials, a one-week work plan, a proposal to improve the work, a handover summary, a report reviewing six months of work) — each with a model answer that really uses this volume's expressions, a self-check list and a full writing grid. And 12 readings of real workplace documents: a vacancy notice, an interview date guide, a first-day guide for new staff, office facility rules, a meeting room booking guide, telephone manners and message rules, work email rules, a paid leave guide, business trip expense rules, a safety and health notice, a work-from-home guide and a leaving-and-handover guide. Every reading in real Japanese, with a full English translation, key words and questions.

26,500+ guided practice squares. Review quizzes close every group, with a full answer key and an expression index at the back. A 12-week study plan in the front matter (25 expressions, one writing task and one reading a week) takes you through the whole book. All 300 expressions and all 12 readings are entirely new — zero overlap, no exceptions, against Vol.1–Vol.13: after this volume the series totals 4,200 words, 300 patterns, 1,800 expressions and 168 readings. An honest note: this book teaches the language of work and office life, not career or legal advice — the sentences for reporting, asking and checking, with rules and conditions left to confirm with the person in charge in front of you.

Inside: 300 expressions with usage notes and example sentences · 12 graded writing tasks with models and checklists · 12 readings of workplace documents · quizzes and answer key · 12-week plan.

Made in Japan: this workbook was written by Japanese author Aki Wakamatsu and produced and published in Japan by Takikawa TOKOTOKO Kids LLC — a Japan-made workbook, written from inside the workplaces it teaches.

Written and created in Japan by Japanese author Aki Wakamatsu. Published by Takikawa TOKOTOKO Kids LLC, a Japanese publisher in Hokkaido, Japan. Authentic Japanese content, carefully made in Japan — not mass-produced.