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I loved it. It stops using romanji early-on, and all the stories and such are so cute. For a college language textbook it's very lightweight and small, but I like that. The workbook is okay; it has kana and kanji practice sheets and little dialogue/activities. I like the way the lessons are grouped and introduced, too, since it's from the model of a student living in Japan, rather than a tourist. Most instruction books teach you tourist-type dialogue rather than casual situations. You do get introduced to informal speech in this book, a little too early I feel. It'd be better introduced during the second year.

Pictures:
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This is an example page, the introduction to lessons 6.


This is from lesson 4 of the workbook
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First page, that third "on the bus" exercise. The first thing said is "Ano" right? :\ Why didn't they translate that to at least an "um" or something? Or am I mistaken.

It's little things that I worry about screwing up and my own pen-manship. Hiragana for "A" and "O" for example are SO similar. -_-; How can you easily define one from the other and write it out correctly?

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