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Title: Badly Thought Out
Review: Because this author uses his own original way of transcribing Japanese into Roman characters, this book is, at times, somewhat confusing. For example, normally the hiragana character 'tsu' is written in Romaji as such. The way it is pronounced, there is a very definite combination of 't' and 's'. This book writes it as 'tu.' I fail to see how that makes it more accurate. It makes it LESS accurate. I don't know who he is aiming this book at, but the pronunciation of many of his transcriptions, in everyday spoken Japanese, would clearly be wrong.Better to buy 'The Complete Japanese Verb Guide,' by the Hiroo Japanese Center. Far more useful.
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