The Association for Japanese-Language Teaching (AJALT), renowned for its series, has developed a comprehensive course for teaching Japanese to young adults in English-speaking countries. is a three-level series, designed primarily for middle school and high school curricula (with an optional starter level for elementary students) encouraging systematic Japanese-language acquisition through an enjoyable but structured learning process. With an emphasis on coordination of structure and verbal communication skills, this first introduces the building-blocks of Japanese grammar through Key Sentences, Dialogues, Exercises, and Tasks. This is accompanied by a fully-illustrated which features over 100 pages of activities and games to familiarize young students with the hiragana and katakana syllabaries before advancing to the next level in the series. With color illustrations and cultural notes throughout, provides an unintimidating start to learning one of the world's most difficult languages.