A First Course in Japanese (2007 Edition) has been written specifically for students who are beginning their study of Japanese in the last two years of high school. The textbook is based on the new syllabus published in 2006 and covers two years of study.

It has three resources:

• the Course Book is based around six main topics. Each topic has a number of units. Each unit begins with sentence structures followed by explanations of the structures. This is then followed by various texts, a grammar summary, Kanji, activities, cultural notes, vocabulary and remember of pictorial charts.
• the Workbook contains grammatical exercises, listening, comprehension, composition and Kanji writing exercises.
• the CDs: the CD that comes with the Course Book covers all the sentence structures and dialogues. The Workbook CD covers all the listening exercises, text and questions.