Making Out in Japanese [Paperback]

Todd Geers (Author), Erika Geers (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 104 pages
• Publisher: Yenbooks (May 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 4900737097
• ISBN-13: 978-4900737099
• Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 4.3 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,675,046 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A Fun Introduction to Informal Japanese Speech, May 4, 2000

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Elijah Zupancic (Kawasaki, Japan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Making Out in Japanese (Paperback)

This book explores some of the more common expressions used in casual speech. Most of these expressions are useful but because the book was published in 1998 some have become obsolete (shigo). Expressions range from everyday chit-chat, to fighting words, to lovers language. I feel this book is an acceptable (and fun) introduction to casual speech for beginning to intermediate students of Japanese (First to Third Year). However, one of the major drawbacks is the complete lack of Japanese characters.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Naughty and nice!, January 28, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Making Out in Japanese (Paperback)

This series is a lot of fun. The romaji text is spelled really no-frills (See _Barron's Japanese at a Glance_ for precision in spelling and annotation). There is also no Japanese text. However, and this is a big however, the intelligence contained herein will get you much further than any other phrase book I've seen!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Let's be honest. If this is your only book on japanese...., February 20, 2001

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Olaf the Bear (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Making Out in Japanese (Paperback)

... you're in serious trouble.

The book is filled with one liners and naughty phrases, but it's pretty useless in real world situations. I can guarantee a zero-percent success rate if you can't follow up any of these lines with conversational Japanese... if you can't, it looks like you read the line out of some book- which is bad. However, if you already know Japanese, this book is fun to flip through. I'd probably get it as a gag gift for someone who was visiting japan more than anything.