Customer Reviews

Japanese Step by Step, Second Edition

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It really is a good beginner's to intermediate reference and study book. I've been using it with Japanese Demystified, which is more like a workbook. Together, they work very well. This one covers more words than Demystified, but doesn't have the writing and reading practice that Demystified does. If you're a newbie to Japanese, you might want something a little bit more basic than this one, but if you have had a little bit of Japanese, this one along with any sort of Japanese workbook sort of text will help you a lot.

Japanese made easy. I'm having a good time learning this language that I find fasinating. Plus it's helping me watch anime more easier without relying on the subtitles. Overall this book with a couple of other is a good start with learning japanese. Something i have been wanting to do for a long long time. So give it a try if you're interested.

I give this two stars because it is exactly the same as the first edition, which I had borrowed from my library before buying my own copy. The first edition is still listed and cheaper. No reason to spend more money on the second as not one word has been changed as far as I can tell. You are basically paying more for a new cover. It disappoints me. Though it is not a lot of money, I feel ripped off by the publisher and Amazon.

If you study Japanese this book would be a great help. It contains everything you need to begin read and write in Japanese, to understand this language's structure and so on. But if you want to begin speaking Japanese - it's not a perfect choice. Try Rosetta Stone - it's approach is greatly more effective in listening and speaking fields of language study.