In the 22 years since its publication, Japanese for Busy People has won acclaim worldwide as an effective, easy-to-understand textbook, either for classroom use or for independent study. Now, more than a decade after its first revision, the series is being redesigned, updated and consolidated to meet the needs of today s students and business people who want to learn natural, spoken Japanese as effectively as possible in a limited amount of time. This text focuses on speaking, listening and reading, with longer passages (both recorded and written) to challenge the intermediate student Includes a free audio CD.