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Japanese Stage-Step Course

by Wako Tawa

The Japanese Stage-Step Course consists of four volumes: The Grammar Textbook, Workbook 1, Workbook 2 and The Writing Book. Workbooks 1 and 2 cover supplementary audio and exercises covering the material in The Grammar Textbook. The Writing Book covers hiragana, katakana and beginning kanji. The Japanese Stage-Step Course is a comprehensive beginning to intermediate Japanese course. The contents include: Basic Structures of Japanese, Numbers and Counters, Verbs, Adverbs, Conjunctive Forms and Their Uses, Adjectival Clauses, Derived Verbs: Potentials and Passives, Making Inferences, Emotive Expressions, Overriding Particles, Adverbial Clauses, Adverbs and Adverbial Phrases, Conjunctions, and Honorifics.

Chappie’s discussion starters

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  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?