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	• Yookoso: Yokoso! An Invitation to Contemporary Japanese (Third Edition) Yasu-Hiko Tohsaku McGraw-Hill Companies, 2005 - 548 pages average customer review:based on 6 reviews view larger image
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excellent as promised

I waited until the last minute to buy textbooks but the extra shipping option got the book to me on time and in excellent condition. I'll definitely be back next semester!

A Good Start to Your Japanese Language Journey

Yookoso! An Invitation to Contemporary Japanese, is the first part of McGraw Hill's Japanese Language textbook series. I just finished using this textbook at the end of last year when I completed my Japanese 201 class.

Overall, I like Yookoso, it does a pretty good job in laying out grammar patterns, vocab, and even cultural notes in a simple and easy to understand format. The only failing that I can see in the Yookoso textbooks, is their failure to teach you enough kanji. By the end of Yookoso! An Invitation to Contemporary Japanese, you have only been introduced too and learned around 170 kanji, which is a fairly low number compared to the 1,945 jouyou, or common use, kanji that you will eventually need to know. It also shelters you from kanji use very often within this textbook by giving the reader words that are supposed to be written in kanji in "hiragana" or "katakana".

But, other than the way that Yookoso decides to handle kanji within this textbook, it's a very good start to anyone's Japanese Language journey. If you are really serious about learning all of the Jouyou Kanji that you will eventually need to know, I highly recommend Remembering the Kanji, Vol. 1: A Complete Course on How Not to Forget the Meaning and Writing of Japanese Characters by James W. Heisig. While not for everyone, due to its controversial teaching by "imaginative memory", it is a great springboard into learning to recognize, write, and read all of the 1,945 jouyou kanji I mentioned above. Best of luck and ganbatte!

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Good condition.

The previous owner of this book was very nice person to dealing with.
I am using this book everyday and it is nice and clean book.
Thank you.

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