A practical foundation for reading, understanding, and using Japanese. This resource introduces essential Japanese vocabulary, simple sentence patterns, pronunciation, politeness levels, and the three main writing systems: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. It also explores why people learn Japanese, Japanese around the world, useful travel expressions, countries and languages, loanwords, and everyday communication. This resource is designed as a foundation before continuing with the full APC Academy Japanese course, which goes further with lessons, practice, quizzes, and certification.