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In the 22 years since its publication, Japanese for Busy People has won acclaim worldwide as an effective, easy-to-understand textbook, either for classroom use or for independent study. Now, more than a decade after its first revision, the series is being redesigned, updated and consolidated to meet the needs of today s students and business people who want to learn natural, spoken Japanese as effectively as possible in a limited amount of time. This third volume will enable learners to handle a variety of daily communicative tasks. By the end of the book, the reader will have reached mid-intermediate level. Includes free audio CD.
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AJALT was established to meet the practical needs of people who wish to communicate effectively in Japanese. In 1977 it was recognized as a non-profit organization by Japan s Ministry of Education.
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Format:Paperback
This is reasonable text book with a good level of grammar and vocabulary for intermediate students of Japanese.
However, the writers have chosen to use very few kanji characters, instead writing most sentences in long lines of hiragana. This makes it difficult to understand in places and also lets slip an opportunity to allow students of this level to familiarise themselves with everyday kanji characters.
However, the writers have chosen to use very few kanji characters, instead writing most sentences in long lines of hiragana. This makes it difficult to understand in places and also lets slip an opportunity to allow students of this level to familiarise themselves with everyday kanji characters.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Excellent relevant up-to-date lessons with CD
29 Oct 2008
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CD that came with this book and a different CD for the work book are both well made. Some language CD can drone-on-and-on. This is fun to listen to. The speaking speed seems to be normal conversation speed (not slowed-down for beginners), for this is Book 3 in the series. I play the CD's in the car, over and over, if I did not get what they are saying the 1st time I let the CD continue, I will get more of it next time, eventually, I understood all that was said.
The workbook that goes with this text is excellent as well, better get the set.
Excellent as text in a classroom or for people doing self-studies. Efficient, effective and enjoyable.
The topics are not that interesting to kids. So for the teen-age and younger students, the Japanese for Young people series are better suited.
The workbook that goes with this text is excellent as well, better get the set.
Excellent as text in a classroom or for people doing self-studies. Efficient, effective and enjoyable.
The topics are not that interesting to kids. So for the teen-age and younger students, the Japanese for Young people series are better suited.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Tremendous Value
7 Dec 2011
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
This Japanese course is a tremendous bargain. You get a fun and challenging workbook full of dialogues and grammar explanations. I personally appreciate the dialogues, as I prefer learning language inductively. The best part is that you also receive CDs to accompany the dialogues and can master pronunciation and conversational ease with help.
This textbook succeeds where many others fail. It presents challenging material in a fun and interactive way.
This textbook succeeds where many others fail. It presents challenging material in a fun and interactive way.
9 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Great for learning JFBPese
16 Jun 2010
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
If you want to learn how to read Japanese-for-Busy-People-ese, this book is excellent. You will get lots of practice trying to figure out where one word ends and another begins in sentences.
(I can't include samples, because Amazon doesn't support unicode in comments). Whole paragraphs will have no more than a half dozen kanji and no spaces between any of the hirigana.
Not only is this incredibly hard to read, it gives you no practice reading Japanese that you will actually encounter in books, magazines, or websites. This book includes bizarre mash-ups like asaban and shinbun written half in kanji half in hiragana.
Each chapter introduces about 200 new vocabulary words, most of which are infrequent and unimportant. Even worse, they aren't repeated with any kind of frequency once introduced.
Vocabulary words are, of course, mostly in hiragana, so unless you bother to convert to kanji for yourself, you might never realize the connection between '''kion and onsen for example''. The dictionary in the back of the book does have kanji, but it is tedious to have to leaf back and forth to look up proper writing.
The dialogues only come at full speed, which is insanely fast for people who are still trying to develop an ear for spoken Japanese.. I've had to use audio software to reduce the speed of some passages in order to even have a chance of making out what was being said. It would be nice if slowed down readings were provided along with at-speed ones. Transcripts are provided but again, the overuse of hiragana means time spent reading the transcripts won't significantly improve your ability to read Japanese.
The grammar rules are well organized but because the grammar examples are written in hiragana and often include newly introduced and obscure or idiomatic vocabulary, they don't make a very good reference.
(I can't include samples, because Amazon doesn't support unicode in comments). Whole paragraphs will have no more than a half dozen kanji and no spaces between any of the hirigana.
Not only is this incredibly hard to read, it gives you no practice reading Japanese that you will actually encounter in books, magazines, or websites. This book includes bizarre mash-ups like asaban and shinbun written half in kanji half in hiragana.
Each chapter introduces about 200 new vocabulary words, most of which are infrequent and unimportant. Even worse, they aren't repeated with any kind of frequency once introduced.
Vocabulary words are, of course, mostly in hiragana, so unless you bother to convert to kanji for yourself, you might never realize the connection between '''kion and onsen for example''. The dictionary in the back of the book does have kanji, but it is tedious to have to leaf back and forth to look up proper writing.
The dialogues only come at full speed, which is insanely fast for people who are still trying to develop an ear for spoken Japanese.. I've had to use audio software to reduce the speed of some passages in order to even have a chance of making out what was being said. It would be nice if slowed down readings were provided along with at-speed ones. Transcripts are provided but again, the overuse of hiragana means time spent reading the transcripts won't significantly improve your ability to read Japanese.
The grammar rules are well organized but because the grammar examples are written in hiragana and often include newly introduced and obscure or idiomatic vocabulary, they don't make a very good reference.
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