Title: Excuse me while I gouge my eyes out
Product review: I am currently using this book in a first-year Japanese class at a community college. I came across Amazon's page for it while I was looking for a better book to learn from, so that may tell you something.I've taken several high school and university courses in 3 different languages (not Japanese), and I must say that this is the worst book I've ever used. Grammatical explanations are terse and lack examples. Vocabulary given is minimal. The book doesn't even have a glossary at the back! This book minimizes the language structure to the point that it's difficult to understand.Please please please, unless you have to buy this book for a class, don't get it. I'd recommend a better book, but I'm still searching for one...um, that came out wrong, not that there's no better book than this (God I hope that's not so!), just that I'm at the beginning of the search. ^_^
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