Learn the Japanese you want to know in any order you want without wasting any time in this short-term study conversation book. -Learn useful phrases as entire units, making it easy to say what you want even as a beginner -Learn starting from what interests you and feel free to start studying from any unit -Tasked based lessons include conversation practice and listening practice questions -Includes readings written in Roman letters for learners who can't read Japanese kana yet -Comes with audio CD including all conversation dialogues and English language explanations so you can study everything on you own!
A textbook approach to language learning with a heavy emphasis on interaction with classmates. I used this book for an intensive three week course upon first arriving in Japan. Perhaps if the lessons had been spaced out once a week for a longer, less intensive course, the book could have been useful. In our format of a new lesson every day or two it proved to be way too much information, and I forgot most of what I studied. I learned more from approaches such as Pimsleur and Mango