A good workbook
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If you already have a basic grasp of Japanese sentence structure, then this is a good intermediate and comprehensive language book for those who want to extend on their Japanese.
As the exercises progress, they try to incorporate what you've already learnt from previous chapters; however this book would benefit from a little more coverage on particles which can be a very confusing aspect of Japanese. Wa and Ga, potentially 2 of the hardest to master, are only really dealt with properly a bit later on, and in addition to this, I also noticed a few grammatical errors, one of which was in the exercises. I think it is especially important that language books are proof read and edited well before publishing. This was a little disappointing, but on the whole would definately say this book is worth buying; it's a very good student reference.
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Excellent book.
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I'm 15 years old and have been learning Japanese for close to a year now. This book is fantastic and I enjoyed the fun conversations and the Language and Society sections at the end of each Unit. However, I believe that you can't possibily learn any language in only a matter of months, as the previous reviewer states. It takes dedication and hard work, unless all you want to do is go on holiday with barely more than a phrasebook and manage to just about communicate. Japanese can hardly be called an easy language and I for one find the grammer and particles particularly hard to fathom at times. Teach Yourself Japanese is a great book and I'd recommended it to anyone that seriously wants to learn the language.
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V. Good
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This is a great book from a great series. It will teach you how to speak Japanese (nihongo!) in just a few months. It only loses the last star however as it does move quite quickly, but this can be easily counter-acted buy buying the beginners version of this first, as I did.
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