Learn all the slang words and modern street phrases you never got to in Japanese class with this fun, super-handy English-Japanese phrasebook.

Next time you’re traveling or just chattin’ in Japanese with your friends, drop the textbook formality and bust out with expressions they never teach you in school, including:

•Cool slang
•Funny insults
•Explicit terms
•Raw swear words

Dirty Japanese teaches the casual expressions heard every day on the streets from Tokyo to Kyoto from "What's up?" (Ossu?) to "I'm smashed," (Beron beron ni nattekita.)

Matt Fargo has worked in Japan as a writer, translator, and musician, subsequently earning his Master's degree in Japanese Literature at UC Berkeley. He lives in Berkeley, CA.