Rating: 
Summary: full of info you can't use
Review: well, i have to say i was pretty disappointed with this book. maybe i was naive to think that, as a beginner, i'd be able to learn japanese from a book. still, there's way too much information here for my brain to process. even though it's a japanese I book, it requires a basic understanding of japanese (which, sadly, i don't have). also, i ran into a lot of concepts that i wouldn't have known if i wasn't an english major. if you don't know what the words 'fricative,' or 'subjunctive' mean, don't buy this book!
Rating:
Summary: overrated
Review: While I am beginning to understand the rationale for how this textbook is designed, I still feel that it is too targeted to business users to be of true value to anyone not needing to do business in japan. In other words, if you are learning japanese out of personal or family interest, look elsewhere. Also as other reviewers have said it relies heavily on rote memorization which is good and/or necessary for some things (days of the week, numbers, dates, etc) but really bad for others (verb forms and conjugation).
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