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Very very good book..., April 21, 1999
This review is from: Reading Japanese Financial Newspapers (Paperback)
I got this book hoping that it would give a boost to my newspaper reading ability... It did. Although I already knew almost all the Joyo kanji, I didn't know a laaarge number of the terms commonly used in newspapers... especially the financial terms. This book greatly helped in remedying that...
The most important thing you should know is that this book _isn't_ just about finance -- it's about almost everything in japanese newspapers, including sentence structure and common idioms... And at any rate, it's much nicer to skim by boring financial articles knowing that you could read them if you wanted to <grin>...
If you are frustrated with newspapers, get this book. It won't do everything for you, but it'll do a lot... And it's easy to work through, especially if you're looking at papers all the time trying to read them... ;)
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Another classic Japanese language text..., February 3, 2002
This review is from: Reading Japanese Financial Newspapers (Paperback)
My advice is to use Jordan's Reading Japanese as a starting point, and eventually move on to Reading Japanese Financial Newspapers. I struggled with this text for quite some time, but eventually emerged literate enough to read Nikkei Shimbun pretty comfortably...
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