This text contains ten lessons (21-30) of the basic course in a three-part curriculum which includes basic, intermediate and advanced. This total curriculum is designed to cover approximately two years of concentrated study.
This approach is neither wholly oral nor wholly written, but a combination of both elements. All four skills--hearing, speaking, reading, and writing--are taught simultaneously. So this approach to the study of Japanese named the "total method".
Each lesson, consisting of vocabulary, kanji, drill, grammar, dialogue, reading, and exercises, is integrated around patterns. As the student progresses through the course he learns to expand, transform, and combine the patterns. This method reverses the random approach of many traditional Japanese language texts which take a conversation or reading selection and simply explain the patterns as they appear.
Each lesson contains a dialogue and a reading selection which reinforce the patterns under study by providing a natural context. A variety of practical situations for everyday conversation are presented, and the readings carry much information of an "orientation" nature for persons interested in Japanese life. A section is provided at the end of each lesson to allow for the inclusion of specialized vocabulary. This feature enables these texts to update the vocabulary with each revision to keep pace with the rapidly changing social and economic scene.

Features of this volume:
* Lessons 21-30. Working on the foundation of the seven basic patterns presented in Volume I, the second volume introduces more complex sentence patterns by expansions--principally by embedding sentences in the noun phrase element of a matrix sentence. Four basic transformations--potential, passive, causative, and causative-passive--are introduced.
* Approximately 850 vocabulary entries and 151 kanji plus 78 additional readings are presented.