Customer Reviews

Japanese for Busy People II: The Workbook for the Revised 3rd Edition incl. 1 CD

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This workbook is very unlike Workbook I. It is much more interactive with a set of vocab all its' own. Definatly a great learning tool and companion to Book II in this series. It realy gives you a chance for further practice.

This workbook gave me a huge boost in understanding the material in the textbook and enough practice to feel comfortable with the subject.
I am able now to form sentences on my own with confidence.

Be warned that this workbook is mainly in hiragana with an almost complete lack of kanji. For some reason they don't use the kanji they teach in the level 2 study book in this workbook. It becomes extremely difficult to study intermediate Japanese entirely in hiragana, and the only all-hiragana writing used in Japan is for children.

To be fair, I did like the warm-up section that reviewed verb conjugations. Also, to give myself some credit, I lived in Japan for 3 years and passed JLPT level 3.

It's good to use after reading and working with the japanese for busy people II textbook. Its basically supplemental practice, this doesn't really teach much besides that.

I need for this book to remind me my old university Japanese classes, not to learn one from scratch. I found very helpful to listen the CD for my 25-50 minutes commute to work. My goal was to help me to start think in Japanese again. The book and CD are helpful for that.