Japanese Made Easy (Tut Books) [Paperback]

Tazuko Ajiro Monane (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0804812195 | ISBN-13: 978-0804812191 | Publication Date: December 15, 1989

A guide to the basic patterns of the Japanese language and to the most common occasions when they will be used.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 204 pages
• Publisher: Tuttle Publishing (December 15, 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0804812195
• ISBN-13: 978-0804812191
• Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 4.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,452,669 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommended for beginners and tourists!, April 5, 2008

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Arden R. Smith (Albany, CA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Japanese Made Easy: Revised Edition (Paperback)

Japanese cannot be made truly easy, but this book does make it easy to learn some of the fundamentals of the language. I read through several different books in preparation for my first trip to Japan, and this was the one that I found to be the most useful.

Unlike a tourist phrasebook, Japanese Made Easy teaches you basic grammatical structures, so you can actually build your own sentences, rather than simply repeating phrases like a parrot. But unlike the usual beginner's textbook, the vocabulary in Japanese Made Easy is for the most part limited to the sorts of words that a tourist would want or need to know.

The Japanese in this book is entirely romanized (with the exception of a list of words commonly seen on signs), so anyone wanting to gain a reading knowledge of the language will need to go elsewhere. Even as a textbook of conversational Japanese, the scope of this book is quite limited, but for a tourist or a short-term visitor to Japan seeking to learn the largest amount of practical Japanese in the shortest amount of time, I would recommend this book above all others.