Bump Up Your Basics! Japanese Collocations - Associative Learning for Beginners OnJumpstart your Japanese vocabulary using associative learning! While many textbooks teach you words in isolation, Bump Up Your Basics! aims to boost your language proficiency by introducing common expressions or collocations associated with a new word. This learning system allows beginners to quickly grasp both the meaning of a word and its application to various situations common to daily life. Bump Up Your Basics! is divided into 15 chapters that