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I really love this book. HOWEVER! There is one huge warning that is a major defect of this book: it only focuses on Japanese in the romanji writing system. In order to fully understand how Japanese works, you are highly advised to master katakana, hiragana and begin to learn at least the more important On and Kun yomi pronounciations of the most commonly used kanji.If you take away the limitations of this book, it's still great. Did you know that Japanese doesn't have a future tense as such? You...
This book is almost 50 years old by the time I read it, so a couple of things are way out of fashion in modern Japanese (at least according to my teacher), but it has some of the most concise and easy to grasp explanations of the most important and basic grammatical elements that I’ve ever seen. Just one quick look thru it and I finally got the difference between 2 particles that had been plaguing me for a year and no amount of explanation from several teachers could clear up for me. I highly re...