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Yoshi Abe
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Pages: 260 (Paperback)
ISBN: 1741042313
Pub: Lonely Planet Publications
Pub date: 2008-07-18
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 11178
Reader Reviews:
An average phrasebook. (0/0 people found this helpful)
This isnt the easiest phrasebook to use, but does contain useful tourist and cultural info/tips. it contains a menu reader, a dictonary and grammar rules. One big advantage that I think this book has over others is that it has a page dedicated to the Hiragana and Katakana alphabets/scripts which can make words easier to learn.
a good book (1/1 people found this helpful)
I found this phrasebook really useful. It was small enough to put in my bag and I used it everyday. Even when I could not pronounce certain things I would just show whomever I needed help from and they understood straightaway. It has both English and Japanese dictionary and it came in handy when I fell ill and had to go to the doctors. This is great for anyone who is going to Japan for the first time.
Poor indexing and unbalanced coverage (5/6 people found this helpful)
Having used this in Japan for a couple months, I find this phrasebook fairly useless. We don't even bother carrying it around anymore.
The indexing is poor: meaning that you cannot easily find what you are looking for.
The coverage is unbalanced: why does it spend so much space on phrases for talking to the opposite sex? If you need a phrasebook to ask someone to marry you, then you have a problem! Yet the coverage of useful phrases, food items, etc, is quite weak, with many useless things included and the basics missed out.
The romanization scheme used is non-standard, making it annoying to use in conjunction with other books.
Excellent Resource (20/20 people found this helpful)
I highly recommend this little gem of a book, it contains many phrases which can help even a child to get through Japan. It contains alot of other information too! Buy it! buy it now! :)
handy for everyday use in japan (29/30 people found this helpful)
I have basic knowledge of written and spoken Japanese and found this book very helpfull in getting by in day to day things. I lent it to my brother when he visited me in tokyo and he coulnd't have gotten by without it. As most of the Japanese's English is abominable you really need a small pocket dictionary or a phrase book.
Size makes this particular book very handy. I would have liked some more young persons words and catchy phrases.
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