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Japanese for Busy People is the most popular Japanese language textbook series in the world. With over 20 components including texts, workbooks, CD...
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Feb 13, 2009
Bird Brian
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An excellent book, and deserving of five stars, but allow me to clarify my rating:
Kana is the easiest of the Japanese alphabets, and if you are living in Japan, it is the easiest one to practice just walking down the street. If you live in Japan and you are motivated to learn Japanese, you probably don't need this version.
Japanese for Busy People I already has plenty of Kana in it. If you already own JfBP-I it probably isn't worthwhile to get the Kana version in addition.
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Kana is the easiest of the Japanese alphabets, and if you are living in Japan, it is the easiest one to practice just walking down the street. If you live in Japan and you are motivated to learn Japanese, you probably don't need this version.
Japanese for Busy People I already has plenty of Kana in it. If you already own JfBP-I it probably isn't worthwhile to get the Kana version in addition.
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Jan 04, 2011
Jamie
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This is a clear and straightforward textbook for elementary Japanese. It is ideal for self-study and it, along with "Japanese for Everyone," are highly recommended for people going that route. Coming out of this book, I was no where near being conversational, but I did have a decent grasp of survival Japanese. In many ways this series has the learner off to a slower start than other books. This was frustrating for me at first, but now I think it is better as I have had more time to int
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May 20, 2008
James
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Pretty good textbook. It stays focused on useful material.
I've beens studying with a teacher from Japan Online School, which I would recommend checking out also. My teacher is the one who uses this text.
Note that this edition uses English (Roman) letters. Japanese is different enough to give people headaches without having to fight a new writing system. There's also an edition that throws you into headfirst into the new writing system.
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I've beens studying with a teacher from Japan Online School, which I would recommend checking out also. My teacher is the one who uses this text.
Note that this edition uses English (Roman) letters. Japanese is different enough to give people headaches without having to fight a new writing system. There's also an edition that throws you into headfirst into the new writing system.
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Mar 17, 2011
Erin
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Used this as my textbook for my Japanese class. Overall, I liked the book a lot since there are a lot of exercises and examples. However, the exercises are mainly rote copying of the example given rather than making you think about what words/grammar structures you're choosing and why. I think rote copying can be helpful to a degree, but it gets tedious after awhile. The book also lacks in grammar, but what grammar it does explain, is clear to the reader. I'm also disappointed that the book
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Oct 18, 2008
Winona
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I started studying Japanese in my Freshman year of high school. We learned the Hiragana alphabet, but we never really worked on Katakana, other than to learn how to write our names. The lessons in this book made it easy and fun to continue my Japanese language education. Now that I am familiar with both writing systems, I can move on to the more complicated Kanji. I think this book would be good for anyone interested in starting to learn the Japanese language. It not only teaches the writing sys
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Jan 13, 2008
Lara
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I'm currently hating this book with further intensity every time I pick it up. Its content tortures me.
Mar 06, 2008
VJ
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The native speakers speak the language extremely rapidly, as if they are in an awful hurry.
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