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 Great book Jul 22, 2008
I really like this book. It's fundamental grammar lessons and activities are very good for the self learner. These books also compliment Rosetta Stone very well.
Excellent Starting Book that teaches Hiragana May 19, 2008
This book is really great. It teaches it slowly and allows you to work through it. This book covers the Hiragana. The 2nd covers Katakana and the 3rd Kanji I believe. Each lesson has a set of Hiragana which it has area to practice writing right in the book! This is very very helpful. Other books I got basically just show you it and say "learn this" but that doesn't help me at all. I want to have my hand held to help me through it and this book does that. Not everyone is good at learning other languages. For some like me its very hard but this book definitely made it approachable to me. As you go from chapter to chapter the english letters are slowly replaced so by the time you are done you're reading Hiragana as if it were english letters.
In addition to the Hiragana lesson in each chapter, it also has lessons in grammer and vocabulary. I found this to be the hardest part. To fully learn Japanese you would have to double your vocabulary relearning every single word you know in English basically. Its very difficult, period. I made it through 3/4ths of the book before the real world forced me to stop working on it. I can't recommend it enough though. I really feel like if I wasn't interupted and could focus on it I could learn Japanese sufficiently thru this series of books.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Amazing Book to Start with Jan 02, 2008
The book is amazing to learn the basics of Japanese. It covers Hiragana, basic vocabulary and some basic grammar in a progressive way. You learn something new every lesson. The examples and exercises are always interesting and mixed in difficulty. Even though there are some drawbacks I'm giving this book 5 stars, simply because it's so much fun and so effective to study from it and because all information is presented in a very understandable and fun way. I really can't imagine a better introduction to Japanese.
However, some of the drawbacks are:
- The book doesn't cover the pronunciation completely and there are no audio samples whatsoever. If you have never studied Japanese before or can't ask someone, you will probably start saying words the wrong way or will be unsure about the correct pronunciation.
- Sometimes the examples are confusing, because the books uses vocabulary or characters you haven't learned yet. It's not impossible to figure the meaning of these things out by yourself, it just gets annoying.
- There are a few typing errors, which can confuse you if you want to check your answers.
All in all, it's a great book. If you have no prior knowledge of Japanese (like me) it's the perfect place to start, especially if you have someone you can ask about the pronunciation (and some of the exercises) or if you have other books you can supplement it with.
4 of 9 found the following review helpful:
 An ok book Dec 16, 2007
I really enjoy this book a writing practice but to learn Japanese from nothing it isn't that good for. First, it doesn't give you all the pronunciations that you need to know Japanese(ie desu is pronunced deh-sue and dess depending on how it's being used),it just gives you the very basic of the basics. Second, to learn Japanese you need to know how it sounds and how to speak it. It would be a great series if these two things were changed.
1 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Great book Nov 21, 2007
This book is great, i love the way it start up with numbers and then goes to proper introduccion lessons and age and everything, this book is one of the best learn to japanese books i have bought
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