Japanese for College Students is a genuinely integrated and comprehensive approach to learning every aspect of beginning Japanese: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. It uses the three Japanese scripts--hiragana, katakana, and kanji--from the outstart and employs traditional Japanese subscript pronunciation guides (rubi) where necessary.

Volume consists of the following:

- Listening and speaking

- Pattern formation practice

- Short drills

- Grammar notes

- Roleplaying

- Reading passages

- Writing exercises

- Word lists

- Two vocabulary indexes

- Kanji index

- Two grammatical indexes