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An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese, Vol. 1 (English and Japanese Edition) [Paperback]

Eri Banno , Yutaka Ohno , Yoko Sakane , Chikako Shinagawa , Japan Times
4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (92 customer reviews)

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May 1999 4789009637 978-4789009638 1st
This is a widely used textbook for beginning Japanese covering the four basic skills - reading, writing, listening and speaking. Genki I covers lessons 1 to 12. Japanese/English.


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Ideal for beginning students of Japanese. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

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  • Paperback: 368 pages
  • Publisher: The Japan Times; 1st edition (May 1999)
  • Language: English, Japanese
  • ISBN-10: 4789009637
  • ISBN-13: 978-4789009638
  • Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 7.2 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (92 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #59,141 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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If you're serious about wanting to learn Japanese, the Genki series is the best. joseph  |  44 reviewers made a similar statement
Use this book together with the CD's and workbook. H. M. van Dooren  |  16 reviewers made a similar statement
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92 of 95 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The first Japanese book you should buy April 20, 2004
Format:Paperback
My Japanese teacher used this book in our classes and it was an excellent choice. It can easily be used for self-study, especially if used with the CDs. Each lesson starts out with a dialog and is followed by a vocabulary list, grammar explanations, and vocabulary/grammar practice. The grammar is explained very clearly and the practice exercises are very useful for remembering what is being taught. One drawback: no answers are given. The vocabulary lists are not always comprehensive but they give lots of useful vocabulary. Several topics are covered including shopping, talking about family, travel, daily routines, and health. The book also includes lessons on Katakana, Hiragana, and Kanji.

I took the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (Level 4) after 5 months studying with this book and passed. The Kanji included was very useful as were the grammar points and vocabulary. If you can, I recommend getting the CDs and the workbook. The CDs are excellent. You can practice pronunciation with the dialogs and vocabulary lists and the CDs also include listening exercises for the text and workbook. The workbook covers more grammar and vocabulary as well as Kanji, Katakana, and Hiragana practice.

This is the best Japanese textbook I've encountered. It is well organized and relevant. I give it 5 stars without hesitation!

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276 of 300 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Mediocre for adults September 26, 2007
Format:Paperback
This book may be good for young students who anticipate homestays (and I'm skeptical even about that, for reasons below), but if you're an adult you may find this book excruciating. I recently moved to Japan, and finally determined to take some private lessons to get a more systematic grasp on the language than I have had hitherto. My school uses this text. I can't compare it with other college-style textbooks, which may mostly suffer from the same problems, but among the issues I have with it are:

@ The framing scenario is of foreign students living in homestays and interacting with their homestay families and with each other; there is also a lot of school-related vocabluary. This is largely irrelevant for an adult's experience. It is useless for business, BTW (though in my own case, I was looking more for daily life vocabulary and situations than business).

@ Even within this scenario, the book doesn't teach you how to really have conversation -- all classmates address each other with polite "-masu" form verbs. In real life, this would be distant or even rude with your pals. (Moreover, on the accompanying tapes female gaijin characters like "Mary" and "Sue" address their classmates and homestay parents in that saccharine, squeaky little-girl voice that is normally used by shop staff and female announcers on infomercials, not people talking to friends or family.)

@ In Japan, it is very rare for people to mirror back to you what you say, or for it to be appropriate for you to mirror back to them. This is especially true if your main interactions are with people in shops, where they will use a lot of "keigo" (honorific speech) or other specialized formulas. Simple example: A waitress will bring stuff to your table and ask "Yoroshii desu ka?" (Is that OK?
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34 of 35 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing! Go Genki!! December 7, 2005
Format:Paperback
I had been self-studying Japanese over numerous websites for 'bout 7 months when I decided to actually get a textbook. After searching around, reading reviews, asking people what they think I decided on Genki I. What a fantastic choice!! I learned more in 2 weeks in this book than I learned 7 months on a computer. Here I go, in depth (summary at end ^_~):

A) It starts out with an overview of the book, explanation of alphabets, so-on-and-so-forth, ect. Not much here but an introduction, soooo....

B) Dialogue - The beginning of the lesson has a dialogue that goes with a certain lesson theme (e.g. New Friends covers greetings, simple questions, numerous phrases and vocab, ect.). This is written in kana (after lesson 3, kanji w/ furigana), romanji, (if any) katakana w/ furigana, and an English translation. You won't understand what's being said 'till the next few pages, so now onto that.

C) Vocabulary - A loooong list of vocab resides here. Although it may be sorta "random", it is useful and good stuff to know. Words and terms used in the dialogue are marked with an asterisk "*". This page is written in kana, kanji w/ furigana, (if any) katakana w/ furigana, romanji, and English. Ok! Here we go:

D) Grammar - easy-to-understand grammar explanations rest here, after vocab. This provides the info needed to actually USE the vocab. After reading this, you should probably get a lot more of the dialogue. But not quite....

E) Um, Other? - These pages contain numerous class activities (not very useful to self-studiers, but can have some good practice exercises if you play both parts XD), other grammar/useful notes explanations, some more vocab perhaps, more dialogues, ect. In later lessons, this contains the kanji explanations as well.
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31 of 34 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent book for beginning students! March 27, 2000
Format:Paperback
I am currently in a college course which uses this as our sole text book, and it is extremely useful. With lessons in class paired with the book's chapters, new concepts are picked up comfortably, and are then used throughout the rest of the chapters, providing a cumulative effect that really lets you feel like you are making progress. Also included are kanji in the back of the book for each chapter, allowing you to fill out your reading/writing skills as you see fit. All in all, a wonderful text!
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I brought this in 2010 after finally deciding to purchase some form of Japanese language learning material. Sad to find out months later that there's a second edition lol. Read more
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Genki is a great tool for those looking to teach themselves Japanese. The lessons are simple and easy to understand.
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Replacing lost book of mine. Best language learning guide I've ever used and this is my third language. Fully recommended
Published 4 months ago by Fawn
3.0 out of 5 stars WARNING
Check to see if your class requires the second edition. I bought this under the impression that it was what I needed, and it turned out that there was a volume 2!
Published 6 months ago by Ram
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This was a good item that I had to buy for my class. I am glad I got it and I use it daily.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Japanese Tutor Buying Often
Every time I have a new student, I buy this and the relevant workbook. It's very good quality for such an affordable price, which is nice, given it's slightly outdated nature.
Published 12 months ago by NatsumeRika
3.0 out of 5 stars Persisting odd flaws in a textbook
I am using the 44th printing (2007) of the 1999 textbook's first edition.

The book is published by The Japan Times which may explain the failure to issue a new edition... Read more
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I needed a replacement for a book that someone had sold without asking me if it was alright. I saved quite a bit, thank you!
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Thank you, Nancy, for the Japanese book; it's in perfect condition and I can't wait to start learning Japanese by using this book for my class!! Read more
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