Japanese DeMYSTiFieD with Audio CD, 2nd Edition

I spent three years in Japan as a child not learning Japanese formally but listening in passing. This is a fun book with easy to understand explanations and good CD pronunciations. It is giving me a great structure of language to my childhood memories. I would buy this book even if I were new to the language.

I really enjoy this book I owned the first edition and had to buy the second edition with the audio cd has really helped with the lessons. If you own the first edition then you really do not need this one but if you dont definetly get this book makes learning many japanese subjects better.

This is a very good aid to learning the Japanese language, especially with the addition of the audio CD. However, gave it only 4 stars because of one annoying feature--they introduce the kanji reading without any help to a beginner. I have mastered the hiragana and katakana alphabets, and they do explain them quite adequately, however, kanji, as any student of Japanese knows, takes many years to learn, especially for those of us who are not in a setting where it is naturally learned. Overall, very useful book and I recommend it--but get the one with the CD, any chance to hear the language is beneficial.

I'm just starting out with this book, and may update this review as I use it more, but, so far, the audio CD bugs me. For instance, track 4, where they give an example of "Pitch Accent" 'ame' can be "rain" or "candy" depending on where the pitch is hit in the spoken word. They have a male voice verbalize "rain" and a female voice verbalize "candy" If we're to listen close to the very slight difference between the two ways the same word is spoken, why muddle things by not only having two different people read each of the two words, but even worse, one with a low male voice and the 2nd with a high female voice? They did the same thing with words like Obasan, which could mean Aunt or Grandmother depending on how long the 2nd vowel (a) is held when the word is spoken.

We are a military family with lots of diversity. I am a fourth generation Army veteran. This book is exactly what she wanted to speak to all her friends and family she is learning more than 4 languages at once. I have enough trouble speaking my own language. I can't keep up with all the slang our youth continues to create! Not to mention text lingo. I'm still trying to figure out what ROFLMBO means. My kids just shake their head at me and laugh.

This is precisely what I wanted for helping me learn Japanese. It is easy to follow and read and there is no doubt in my mind that combined with other books and learning equipment I have bought this book will be what I need.

The lessons were all in romanji! No hiragana to learn correct pronunciation. I returned it.

Love it! My order came on time and was in perfect shape. I ordered used and it is as good as new. I'm brushing up on my language skills and this book makes it feel super easy so relearning this will be a breeze. I can't wait to get started.

I'm using this book to self-study Japanese and I can say that I like it. Grammar explanation are easy to understand and you can test yourself at the end of each section. The only "drawback" is tge fact that uses romaji throughout the whole book. I know both hiragana and katakana, so having romaji is not really helpful if you want to strengthen your reading skills. You have to try not to look at them and try to read the Japanese and not the romaji. This is the only little negative thing (is not this important, if you don't know hiragana and katakana is good, but it slows your learn). Anyway, I'm really satisfied with this purchase. Plus the shipping and the package were perfect.

The book is fine. But I don't think the methodology applied at this book that good. I think it should focus more on pronouns and other grammar functions. The book is focused more on 'survival' and daily phrases, which is not that good for those who want to be conversational in the language I think.

I am very pleased with the condition I received this book, and the seller was incredibly prompt with shipping as well. I recommend this book for those who are beginner and intermediate because this book, unlike some others; doesn't skip on the kanji in fear of it being too difficult. If you're going to learn Japanese, you may as well learn the kanji, unless you only wish to know it spoken.

A great book to get a good grounding in Japanese grammar, and sentence structure. The included CD is really just for pronunciation. Just wish I was a better student ^-^

DeMYSTiFieD books are alwasy good, and this Japanese language one is brilliant as always. It allows you to build up your knowledge with little tasks and the CD is helpful to hear the pronuncations of the words. Great book definitely the one you want when learning Japanese.