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Summary: quite a good book
Review: I have been studying Japanese for about ten years, although only seriously the last couple. This book was a very good resource for me, and had great grammar and sentence structure information in it. The only thing about the book I noticed was that it had alot of romaji in it and it distracted me a bit at times, but there is also Japanese writing so it was good for everyone. Certainly a worth while buy for the beginner and even into intermediate level.
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Summary: A great book
Review: I would just like to make an amendment to my other review, this book doesnt have kana or kanji in it, I was partially mixing it up with another book, but aside from the lack of kana it is an excellent grammar book.
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Summary: Revolutionary concept, so why use devolutionary script?
Review: If you hate the Japanese scripts, those being hiragana and katakana (with usage of Chinese characters, i.e. kanji), you are in luck. This book, fortunately for you and unfortunately for the rest of us, has absolutely no Japanese script in it. It's entirely presented in romanji.This is a bad thing, as far as I'm concerned. If you really want to learn mastery of the Japanese language, you will NOT use romanji. Why would you? Wouldn't you want to learn to read it, too, and not just speak it? The concept of this book is that speech is made up of units, not of words. For instance, traditional grammar books will teach you vocabulary words, then make up sentences with them. Wouldn't it be faster to learn phrases since that's how language is usually spoken? So that's what this book does; it presents the Japanese language in groups of phrases, and it does a very good job of it. Alas, if it were not for the romanji... I wish they'd do a kana version. The least they could have done was put kana AND romanji in. I would have preferred it to no kana at all. So, I cannot recommend it. It's a shame, too. It's an otherwise marvelous, fun book.
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