Japanese: An Essential Guide to Japanese Language Learning

by Language Learning University, Takata Ei

Learn Japanese with Ease! This book is for those who want an easy-to-follow guide that will make learning the Japanese language both fun and simple. This book is specifically created for travelers, students, and businesspeople who visit Japan. Whether you're a just starting out or are already familiar with the Japanese language, this book will help you with speaking, writing and understanding Japanese! Just some of the questions and topics covered in this book Dialogue - so you can communicate in everyday lifeVocabulary and useful expressions - so you can get your point across in crucial or urgent situations such as explaining a condition to a doctorExamples - so you can understand the Japanese language easier and fasterGrammar - so you can understand the structure and patterns of the Japanese languageJapanese Culture - so you can avoid cultural mistakes while in JapanSightseeing spots - so you can get the most out of JapanAnd More!Get instant access now so you can start learning Japanese today!

Genres: Nonfiction

122 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 16, 2018

Reviews

[James Kendall · Rating 4 out of 5]

I gave it my best effort but I gave up on it. I just couldn't put in the time and effort to listen to it in a ideal environment.

[Liliana · Rating 4 out of 5]

Reviewed on Lili Lost in a Book

So I did this fun board game where I landed on a square that required me to read an audiobook. I have also really been slacking in my Japanese studies lately, so I thought I could kill two birds with one stone with this book. And it wasn’t too bad! It was a very quick listen and it was very helpful.

One of my favorite sections in this book was about sightseeing. This section actually didn’t have a lot of Japanese, it was just the narrator describing things you could do in Japan... which now that I think about it is kind of strange 🤔 But I enjoyed it! Lol.

This book is very much for beginners, and not that I’M not a beginner, but a lot of this book felt like things I already knew. Which is not a bad thing! I enjoyed as the narrator read the vocab or an example sentence and I tried to figure out what it meant before she translated it. That was fun! This book did have hiragana and katakana charts in the beginning which I presume would be helpful, but in my case, with an audiobook... absolutely no help! 😂 Luckily I already know my kana so I could skip over this no problem. Lol.

That being said, there were some things I had not studied yet, so I enjoyed that. Unfortunately, I don't think those things have stuck with me 😅 This is definitely a book you would need to study a couple times, not just listen to once. On top of that, I'm more of a visual learner soooo yeahhh. Lol. I definitely wish I had a physical copy of this book as well, but that’s definitely more my fault.

Look, audiobooks aren’t my thing, but I really wanted to challenge myself and get out of my comfort zone. And while I did enjoy listening to this—the narrator was a native Japanese speaker, so that was great!—I think I’m gonna stick to my physical books and apps to study Japanese 😅