Title: Quite a good book.
Review: I feel compelled to write purely to disagree with the previous reviewer about Making out in Japanese. While Womansword gives all sort of interesting analysis of interesting words and situations, it will not help you at all doing what most newcomers to Japan want to do, which is to either make friends or lovers out of those Japanese who are not English speakers. Making out in Japanese is simplistic, but it is a non-threatening, easily employed tool for making those first and very difficult steps into the forbidding Japanese language. When I started Japanese, almost a decade ago, I read it for entertainment, and it helped me learn. It got left behind as I went from a beginner to an intermediate speaker of Japanese, but I remember it fondly.
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