Not everyone has the time to attend regular Japanese classes. A busy schedule, however, does not mean you cannot speak Japanese. As Boye De Mente notes in the introduction to this book, you can communicate several thousand ideas with only a few hundred words. The hard part is knowing which 300 words to learn, but veteran author Boye De Mente has solved that problem, assembling in one handy volume all the 'survival Japanese' you need for checking into a hotel, asking for directions, using the telephone, eating, drinking, etc. The author's unique phonetic system makes communication possible from your first day in Japan.