Title: For whom is it written?
Product review: There is something charming with this book listing a large number of animals and explaining how they are used in Japanese sayings. However, it's difficult to imagine who the targeted reader might be. A beginner cannot possibly use it. There is no word to word translation and no explanations of unusual syntax or grammar. An advanced student on the other hand, would be disturbed by the persistent transcription of every single character. For an advanced student this is just a waste of space. The translations to English contain far too much slang to be useful for a non native English speaker. I'm not interested in all the strange ways you can express the origiginal Japanese in English. I'm just interested in what it actually means, and unfortunately this book more than once fails to convey that.
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