The Usborne First Thousand Words in Japanese (First Thousand Words Series) ((Fist Thousand Words Ser.)) [Hardcover]

Heather Amery (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 2 and up | Series: (Fist Thousand Words Ser.)

This book has large, busy pictures for looki ng and talking, surrounded by small, labelled pictures of 10 00 of the most familiar things, to build up the reader''s Jap anese vocabulary. This is backed up by a full alphabetical w ord list. '

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 2 and up
  
• Hardcover: 64 pages
• Publisher: Edc Pub; Revised edition (March 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0746023111
• ISBN-13: 978-0746023112
• Product Dimensions: 12.1 x 9.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #304,101 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fun learning for any one and any age, November 30, 1999

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Daniel Osborne (Lexington, KY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Usborne First Thousand Words in Japanese (First Picture Book) (Library Binding)

My wife (Japanese native)and I (Japanese speaking American) purchased this book for our two year old son. We spend 15 minutes with him daily going through the pages. At first he only paid attention to pictures of words he already knew like "boru" (ball) and "hikoki" (airplane), etc. After a few weeks, he has more than tripled his vocabulary. Over Thanks giving, after diner, my family was sitting around and my brother picked up the book. The next thing we knew, it was a fun learning experience for my whole family (all non Japanese speakers). My brother who is 35 has asked us to buy the book for him for christmas.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for children or new Japanese students!, May 20, 2001

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Mark Rogers (Greenwood, SC United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Usborne First Thousand Words in Japanese (First Thousand Words Series) ((Fist Thousand Words Ser.)) (Hardcover)

I'm an engineer for a Japanese company here in the US and I recently began learning Hiragana and Katakana. This book is fantastic to begin building your vocabulary. The pages are set up by topic and have the romanji and either hiragana or katakana. This book has no Kanji! I prefer that at the beginning of my learning, I see no Kanji. It is just too confusing!

I also have a three-year-old son that has looked at this book also. I'm simply amazed at how quickly he has picked up everything that I've read to him. Each word has a picture and he quickly recognizes it. He certainly can't read either the Japanese or English, but he can pick up the language very easily!

This a great addition to either a children's library or the new Japanese student's.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Starter for Learning Japanese, April 17, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: The Usborne First Thousand Words in Japanese (First Thousand Words Series) ((Fist Thousand Words Ser.)) (Hardcover)

We are Japanese Americans, and we love using this book to teach our children Japanese. We all know that most children love reading picture books. The drawings in this book are very cute. Kids love reading this book and they think it is a story book. Little do they know that they are actually learning Japanese!!

We also like to use this book to teach adult students Japanese. Like the saying "pictures worth thousand words", the grown-ups also find the classes interesting when using material like this one.

We have got 2 copies and will order more for our students.