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A must-have portable conversation handbook for those of you visiting Japan, either for tourism or business. We have made drastic changes to our bestselling 7days 60minutes to create this new enriched version titled Minimum Japanese. <p>You can acquire more expressions with the same amount of time as the previous book. We also added QR codes so that you can listen to its pronunciation using your smartphones. <p><ul><li>3 extremely short basic sentence forms to convey your basic needs</li><li>4 sentence forms to acquire information from your listener</li><li>3 more sentence forms to solve your problems</li><li>And last but not least, we look into ways of using adjectives and verbs to express your idea and to ask someone out for dinner.</li></ul><br>The book is rich with useful information such as how to count numbers in Japanese, guide for pronouncing Japanese names and hints on English pronunciation used in Japan. <p>We also have an abundant vocabulary list of Japanese words for food and souvenirs which will be useful during your stay. Over 500 vocabularies have their own QR codes inside the book to help you with the pronunciation just by using your smartphone. Not only words such as "jidori (selfie) " and "suihanki (rice cooker)" are there but Japanese pronunciation for words like "Instagram" will also be there for you to know how they are pronounced in Japanese.