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Summary: GREAT FOR TRAVEL NOT TO LEARN LANGUAGE
Review: Do not purchase this if you want to learn Japanese. It is a phrase book. Meaning it does not really tell u which word in Japanese is which word in ENglish it just tells you the phrase.
However, this book was wonderful for travel. However, if in Japan you are planning to stay at Japanese speaking peoples houses...i do not recommend this. It is some what dissorganized but all in all not to bad. Another con i ran into when usuing this book in Japan is that the dictionary does not include many common words at all.
Rating:
Summary: GREAT FOR TRAVEL NOT TO LEARN LANGUAGE
Review: Do not purchase this if you want to learn Japanese. It is a phrase book. Meaning it does not really tell u which word in Japanese is which word in ENglish it just tells you the phrase.
However, this book was wonderful for travel. However, if in Japan you are planning to stay at Japanese speaking peoples houses...i do not recommend this. It is some what dissorganized but all in all not to bad. Another con i ran into when usuing this book in Japan is that the dictionary does not include many common words at all.
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Summary: Useful inspite of itself.
Review: I bought this on my first flight back from Japan after taking my first semester in Japanese. I thought that it supplied a ton of useful auxillary vocabulary to run with at the level of grammar I was capable of using. The book also has many slight mistakes, even I, a first year student, was able to pick out. It's got a few cute but dumb, potentially racist but we'll say ignorant drawings included. But so few that it cues one in as to how cheaply produced this probably was. I give it three stars though because I learned it forward and backward and broke it out numerous times to meet my needs in bars and train stations (never in restaurants for some reasons). And, to get me comic leverage in many conversations where I was not privy to the Japanese side of the chatter.
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Summary: Useful but Somewhat Disorganized
Review: I used this book extensively while in Japan. It contains the most commonly useful phrases and a bare-bones grammar section, but the organization of the material could be better.
The format is "back-pocket" handy with a durable binding so it won't fall apart...unlike other phrase books I have used.
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Summary: Useful but Somewhat Disorganized
Review: I used this book extensively while in Japan. It contains the most commonly useful phrases and a bare-bones grammar section, but the organization of the material could be better.
The format is "back-pocket" handy with a durable binding so it won't fall apart...unlike other phrase books I have used.
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Summary: This book is great! ( MY review) I'm a skitzo and so am I!
Review: The sheer amount of 'stuff' that is crammed into this little phrasebook makes this the best Japanese phrasebook I've ever seen! There's just so much covered in this book, it'll be a while before a beginning student of Japanese outgrows it.However... there are a small number of serious mistakes in the book. Not many but enough for me not to give this book 5 stars. Here's an example in which you can use simple grade 2 math logic to figure out that its wrong: ichi = 1; jyu = 10; ichi man = 10,000; jyu man = 1,000,000 (Excuse me? 10000 x 10 is not a million!)
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Summary: sloppy formatting and too many errors
Review: This book has the right idea: a pocket-sized book with a good variety of useful everyday phrases, organized by subject. However, there are enough flat-out mistakes to be pretty annoying. Also, the English and Japanese did not line up perfectly on the page which, in combination with the the print being quite small, made it difficult to figure out which defintion went where (perhaps this is not a problem with all these books but it was with mine). But most annoying are the errors and typos.
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Summary: sloppy formatting and too many errors
Review: This book has the right idea: a pocket-sized book with a good variety of useful everyday phrases, organized by subject. However, there are enough flat-out mistakes to be pretty annoying. Also, the English and Japanese did not line up perfectly on the page which, in combination with the the print being quite small, made it difficult to figure out which defintion went where (perhaps this is not a problem with all these books but it was with mine). But most annoying are the errors and typos.
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