Title: Japanese Demystified
Author: Eriko Sato
Genre: Adult, nonfiction, language learning
Publication date: May 2008
Published by: McGraw Hill
Source: Borrowed from library
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Synopsis: Say sayonara to your fears of learning Japanese with the updated premium edition of this fast, painless guide
The updated third edition of Japanese DeMYSTiFieD provides you with the comprehensive, step-by-step educational experience that has made the DeMYSTiFieD language series such a success. This established, unintimidating approach to speaking, reading, and writing a new language takes the mystery and menace out of the learning process, whether in class or at home.
Hundreds of quiz and test questions, chapter-opening objectives, and specific recommendations for difficult subtopics and individual weaknesses help you learn basic grammar structures and verb tenses, pronunciation, essential vocabulary, and how to communicate with confidence. In addition to DeMYSTiFieD’s time-tested strategies, this edition features 70 minutes of streaming audio recordings and chapter review quizzes via the unique McGraw-Hill Language Lab app, so you can enhance your study via mobile or online, at home, in class, or on the go.
I did it! I finally finished Japanese Demystified! After I don’t know how many years of me checking out this book from the library, reading a little, returning it, checking it out again, rinse, repeat, I finally did it!
This is a textbook, so that’s why it took me a while to get through. But I really wanted to take my time with it and read the lessons and do the work at the end of the chapters to really understand it. Japanese is a tough language to learn, and the thing I’ve found that I struggle the most with is grammar. That’s why I picked up this book in particular, and it ended up being very helpful in that department! I liked how the author explained things and it was all mostly easy to understand. The lessons at the end of the book, I’m not gonna lie, really went over my head though.
Those were just above my learning level, but overall I thought the book was very helpful! I already have some of this author’s other books on my TBR! And at the time of posting this review, I actually have really fallen off my Japanese studies. I’m self-taught—I’m literally doing this just for fun, but I really miss studying the language so I’m hoping to get back into it soon!
Those were just above my learning level, but overall I thought the book was very helpful! I already have some of this author’s other books on my TBR! And at the time of posting this review, I actually have really fallen off my Japanese studies. I’m self-taught—I’m literally doing this just for fun, but I really miss studying the language so I’m hoping to get back into it soon!
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