Book Overview
There is a world of difference between reading Japanese that has been especially concocted for students and reading real Japanese-that is, Japanese written for native speakers. The concocted variety... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:4770017545
ISBN13:9784770017543
Release Date:January 1994
Publisher:Kodansha
Length:158 Pages
Weight:0.50 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 4.4" x 7.2"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
Excellent real-life Japanese!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
This book is wonderful because it uses real Japanese to teach, and it doesn't put the reader to sleep. The explanations are easy to understand, the stories are funny, and it's a good way to refresh your memory or build your vocabulary in Japanese. Highly recommended!
Good Approach to Help Foreigners Understand Japanese Texts
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
I liked this approach best out of all the books I've seen that try to help you "decode" real Japanese texts. I'm by no means an expert by the way, I've only been studying Japanese for about 1 1/2 years, and I've heard that reading texts before having studied for 3 or 4 years is out of the question. I try anyway:-) Anyway, Janet Ashby doesn't try to give you one continous English text as translation but more or less translates sentences or even just parts of sentences. As far as I've seen this approach enables her to stay closer to the original without having to compromise any subtle points just because you can't connect the sentences as smoothly in English. In addition, there are quite a few notes on usage and background that help you with other texts, too. In all, I think this is a pretty good book for those who want to start reading Japanese texts. I'd be glad to hear from anyone who is also just starting on Japanese texts or who can help me find more material that includes notes (or even without notes - I've found it difficult to find anything in Japanese except newspapers). Tina
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