Title: Awful textbook.
Product review: This text book alone forced me to drop my college class. To say this book is confusing is an understatement. All other books I've read teach romanji, and then go onto hiragana, katakana, then eventually kanji. This book, however... was not what I expected or had braced myself for. Even my instructor told me it wasn't the best book! (He was a native Japanese speaker!) This was all the college bookstore had which is a shame. This is Japanese written with poor phonetics and a bad attempt at that. "zya" instead of "ja?" This is not the correct way to learn Japanese, I'm sorry. It only complicates the easiest of exercises to learn the language.I dropped the class after a few weeks of confusion and picked up "Japanese for Everyone" which I've had better luck with so far, learning with my friends or on my own.In closing I have to say, please do not use this outdated, inaccurate book. It makes learning Japanese a confusing, tedious chore. No fun at all.
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