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Yookoso! Invitation to Contemporary Japanese Student Edition with Online Learning Center Bind-In Card (Hardcover)

by Yasu-Hiko Tohsaku (Author)
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Yookoso! An Invitation to Contemporary Japanese is the first volume of a two-volume series for beginning Japanese courses. Based on modern principles of second-language acquisition, it was the first beginning Japanese text to integrate the teaching of all four language skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) and offer a full complement of ancillary materials. In this text, grammar is treated as a tool for developing the ability to communicate in Japanese, rather than as a focal point. The rich illustration program--including photographs, line drawings, and realia--provides an attractive context for language learning.

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  • Hardcover: 576 pages
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages; 3 edition (January 20, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0072971207
  • ISBN-13: 978-0072971200
  • Product Dimensions: 10 x 8.1 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #337,881 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars I prefer the Genki series, September 14, 2007
By S. Smoley (Corona, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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I took Japanese 1 using the Genki series, which I found to be much more comprehensive and easy to study from, with quick references to the lesson content in each chapter introduction, and the kanji learned in the corresponding sections in the back pages.

I'm now in Japanese 2, and we're using Yookoso. Yookoso isn't nearly as nicely laid out, and does not work well for studying from. The workbook is actually necessary in order to get a good study session out of the series.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars After 3 editions, a student would hope for more, August 4, 2008
By Robert Grimm (Placentia, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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Over the past three months, I've taken two summer classes using this textbook. To learn two semesters-worth of a language in such a short time-frame, it is essential to have a good textbook. Unfortunately, I feel cheated.

To begin on a very superficial level, the book is just plain ugly. There are two colors of ink used throughout the entire book: dark olive green and black. Because of the lack of colors, excessive stereotyping seems to have been used to strive for a more politically correct set of example students. For example, the token African-American learner--or as the book calls him, Henry Curtis--is always drawn with lips at least as large as 1/4 of his face. No other example student is drawn this way.

During my summer classes, I would often find myself lost on the exercises. I would repeatedly read the grammar notes (which are nothing more than outlines with little detail), before accepting defeat and asking for help from our teacher. Imagine my surprise to find out that I was one of the better students in the class! Few students understood the book by itself, and it seemed as though nothing was learned unless the teacher explained it separately from the book. In my experience, books should supplement a teacher in the opposite way: provide a student reference in the cases that the teacher is not available.

Having had students in the class with previous editions of the book was also quite interesting. I can almost list the changes in their entirety: both kanji and hiragana on vocabulary lists (as opposed to one or the other in previous editions), and roughly 1 to 2 new exercises for each chapter. All the existing exercises were worded the same, and included the same "misprints."

It is a bit of a misnomer when I say "vocabulary lists." There is no consistent way of finding vocabulary throughout the chapters. The end-of-chapter lists often leave out words introduced in mid-chapter lists.

All-in-all, I'm very dissatisfied with this text. I learned a lot from these past two classes, but I feel as though I may have learned just as much if we used no textbook at all.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive and Well Written Textbook, November 13, 2008
By Elizabeth D. O. Connell (Lexington, KY USA) - See all my reviews
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This textbook was very easy to understand and quickly moves you from topic to topic as well as quickly saturating you in the writing. The accompaning workbook is also great (Apparently you have to buy them separate here, I bought mine together at a bookstore). The culture notes are insightful and funny. The activites can be fun (although some are just a little lame) and quickly get you used to speaking and hearing the language.

Overall Yookoso is a great introduction to a beautiful language.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A decent textbook if used with the workbook
This is my first time studying Japanese but my second time learning a foreign language in a formal class using an actual textbook. The textbook itself isn't that bad. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Tifa Strife

2.0 out of 5 stars What an awful text...
This is crap I don't know how this would help the beginner student and the grammar and vocabulary it covers are ridiculously simple and simplified, once a certain level of... Read more
Published 18 months ago by M. Autio

1.0 out of 5 stars 1 Star for Shipping
I ordered the book on August 18, 2007 and it arrived September 7, 2007. It was a nicely written book, but since it took so long to arrive I had to procure it from somewhere else... Read more
Published 22 months ago by Steven L. Shippee

5.0 out of 5 stars Yookoso! Invitation to Contemorary Japanese
The book is very well written and its examples are essential to learning japanese in an easy manner
Published on March 16, 2007 by John A. Meza

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