Speaking Skills Learned Through Listening - Pre-intermediate & Intermediate (N3) Vol.2 - New edition

Speaking Skills Learned Through Listening - Pre-intermediate & Intermediate (N3) Vol.2 - New edition (新版 聞いて覚える話し方 日本語生中継 初中級2) is the second volume of the revised pre-intermediate edition of the Nihongo Namachūkei series, a listening course that teaches how to speak according to the situation.

The idea is to listen to real everyday conversations in order to learn, at the same time, both to understand them and to reply. Each scene presents variations of the same expression depending on the context and on how close you are to the person you are talking to. It is meant for the student who already has the grammar but cannot use it when speaking, as a bridge between the elementary and the intermediate level. Published by Kurosio Shuppan.

Recommended level: Pre-intermediate (JLPT N3 and above, A2–B1 of the CEFR), as stated by the publisher.

Useful features

• Ten lessons organised by situation: introductions, accommodation, rumours, breakdowns, mistakes of your own, phone calls, health, the station, hobbies and resolutions.
• Each lesson works on specific speech functions: offering, inviting, showing interest, passing on a message, saying that a piece of information is not certain.
• Translations in four languages — English, Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese — which makes self-study possible.
• MP3 audio as a free download from the website (this edition no longer comes with a CD).
• The publisher's website carries the full scripts of the conversations, translated into those four languages.
• Furigana over the kanji.
• 94 pages.

Volumes 1 and 2 are at the same level and the lessons are not ordered by difficulty: you can start with either book and with any lesson.