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Title: Unsatisfying, watered-down textbook
Review: I'm currently using Yookoso in Japanese class, and I'm unimpressed.The authors repeatedly introduce new grammatical points in the exercises, but don't explain them anywhere in the accompanying text. They take complicated problems (like when to use "wa" and when to use "ga") and reduce them to a laundry list of useless suggestions--one of which I've seen mentioned in several other sources as a common misperception about Japanese. And when there is a simple grammatical rule which would save the student much time and aggravation, the authors coyly suggest that the student learn to "make generalizations" and guess in order to become a "better language learner." Er, is this a Japanese language course or a game of keep-away? The vocabulary is good, the exercises are good, and the speed at which kanji are introduced is challenging, but I'd trade it all for a textbook which wasn't afraid to teach me how to speak Japanese.
