Japanese for Everyone: A Functional Approach to Daily Communications

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Summary: Japanese for serious students only
Review: This is definitely not Japanese for everyone. If you are very serious about learning Japanese and have lots of time and dedication, then this may be the book for you. Each lesson is crammed with new concepts and exercises and could take a week or more to work through. The book uses Romanji (English alphabet) only in the first three lessons and expects you to learn the Japanese phonetic scripts (hirogana and katakana) on your own. While this is possible, it takes real effort. Moreover, it slows down considerably the understanding of the structure of the language. Unless you are dedicated to learning written Japanese, it would be better to use a text that uses at least a mixture of English and Japanese script.