Adventures in Japanese 1

well i first got this book when i was in high school.. i found it to be entertaining and the pictures helped to cement the vocab.. however this book has WAY too many classroom vocabulary.. plus some of the activities are for groups.. so its tough for a home learner unless you have someone else doing it with you.. one of the nice things is that it starts out with romaji then works its way until all pronunciation guides are in kana and then it introduces some basic kanji by the end.. all and all not bad

My daughter used this for her high school Japanese class. We purchased it so she can keep up with her Japanese, and I'm now learning as well. It looks like a great textbook and I'll be using it soon.

As a college student majoring in Japanese Language and Literature and going to continue on to a master's degree, I have come across many books claiming to teach a person the Japanese language. This book series, however, does the best to provide grammatical explanation and basic grammar. If you are trying to learn Japanese on your own, I would recommend this book to start with. Not only will it be useful in terms of making your way through Japan, but it is interesting and does more than teach the language. It also provides culture notes which are important since language is more than grammatical structure and words, its context.

This is an excellent textbook for those beginning to learn Japanese. Everything is very clear and easy to understand. This volume teaches you both Hiragana and Katakana as well as a few basic Kanji. I recommend this textbook to anyone interested in learning Japanese.

As a new Japanese student, I found this book to be extremely helpful. Not only are the hiragana and katakana alphabets included and explained, but there is also a lot of cultural information that I found very interesting. This book is very easy to understand and is even good for some basic teach-yourself Japanese, which is what I'm doing. In the first half of the book, all the words are spelled out in Romanji, so it makes it so much easier for beginners to learn how to read and pronounce Japanese words. You will not be dissapointed!