That means you kind of need to be good in English. One thing I noticed is that as a speaker of English as a second language, I found some parts of the book easier to understand for native English speakers (the book had English consultants). The good news is once you've finished with this one, the next step is to read the next book called Japanese For Today and it does have more text in Japanese – I have a copy of it as well. I understand this book is for beginners but it would be helpful to differentiate some homonyms if they were written in kanji. The back part has - in addition to the syllabary charts - an index of vocabulary words and grammatical patterns.Īs an advanced beginner/pre-intermediate Japanese language learner (I've slowly been studying Japanese on and off for more than a decade I can read hiragana/katakana easily and some kanji I can make basic conversation), I sometimes wish the examples were written in Japanese with furigana. The first page of each unit lists the vocabulary words that will be used the next two contain example sentences and some grammar points the fourth one is called 'Further Study', the fifth one is an example of a conversation using the just learned grammar points and the last one is called 'Look and Learn' and is mostly visuals. compare, take note), direction to another unit, and so on. These abbreviations pertain to parts of speech, guides (i.e. In the first pages, the book explains abbreviations it uses to guide the reader. If you're interested in reading this book, one thing you should know is that you'd need to know how to use it (it's easy, don't worry). The units are divided into certain themes or situations.
I find that the system the book was designed is quite effective in presenting each lesson in a logical manner and making it easy to use.
As it is for beginners, almost everything is in Romaji, save the few pages at the back for the hiragana/katakana table plus each chapter's example sentences in Japanese listed at the back. If you're interested in reading this book, one thing you should k I'm glad to have finally finished reading this book.
I'm glad to have finally finished reading this book.
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