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Japanese Made Easy (Tut Books)

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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.