Imagine teaching some English to Japanese natives, coming across the following sentence for example “The brothers are coming” and then telling them the sentence is pronounced ザ ブラダス アル カミング….100% wrong…lol so I definitely agree one should not relate pronunciation of a new language to one they know as it will likely be incorrect. This books seems like an interesting concept, considering I learned Japanese with the sole purpose of consuming content (since I have never set foot in Japan). Good luck on your Japanese studies :)
I was in shinjiku, and I didn't know anything about learning japanese books, it was random, I picked the book volume 1 and 2. When I returned to my country I founded it hard to start the book, as it doesn't give enough time/sheets to practice hiragana for example. So now I am getting Genki books.
Yeah I think they're too hard for complete beginners. I would recommend to learn kana first (i have a video about how I did it on my channel) and then for each lesson you can look up grammar videos on youtube to complement the explanations of the book.
Is the book worth buying because I'm thinking about getting it
Hey! I can't really speak for you but hopefully the video helps you decide ;).
Imagine teaching some English to Japanese natives, coming across the following sentence for example “The brothers are coming” and then telling them the sentence is pronounced ザ ブラダス アル カミング….100% wrong…lol so I definitely agree one should not relate pronunciation of a new language to one they know as it will likely be incorrect. This books seems like an interesting concept, considering I learned Japanese with the sole purpose of consuming content (since I have never set foot in Japan). Good luck on your Japanese studies :)
Hahaha.
Thanks for the comment :))
I've had this book for several months and am about halfway through it, and its helped my grammar, however my kanji skills are seriously lacking
I was in shinjiku, and I didn't know anything about learning japanese books, it was random, I picked the book volume 1 and 2.
When I returned to my country I founded it hard to start the book, as it doesn't give enough time/sheets to practice hiragana for example.
So now I am getting Genki books.
Yeah I think they're too hard for complete beginners. I would recommend to learn kana first (i have a video about how I did it on my channel) and then for each lesson you can look up grammar videos on youtube to complement the explanations of the book.
Thank you Kevin, this is very very useful and informative. Much appreciated.
Thank youuuu ☺️
Thanks! I've been teaching myself Japanese for fun and this looks interesting as a book to mix up my learning.
I hope it'll help! For the price, I think it's worth giving it a go
Nice review. I'm learning Japanese solely for the manga, haha.
They made a book just for you 😆