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Avg. Customer Rating:  (based on 8 reviews)
Sales Rank: 439079
Category: Book
Author: Jack Seward
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Studio: McGraw-Hill
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
Label: McGraw-Hill
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 216
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.6
ISBN: 0844284955
Dewey Decimal Number: 495
EAN: 9780844284958
ASIN: 0844284955
Publication Date: January 11, 1992
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Product Description
Beginning Beginning with pronunciation and including kanji formation, this easy-to-use text covers the basics of Japanese. Explanations of grammar and other language concepts are discussed in English, and include examples. Kana and kanji are introduced halfway through the book.
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 Not quite so easy Japanese. June 26, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
While Easy Japanese has an interesting and breezy writing style, it is not a very accessible book for beginning language students. Mr. Seward provides a number of sentences to memorize and the student is then supposed to use these sentences as a template for further communications. I tried this approach and didn't find it particularly effective. The grammatical explanations can be rather technical and require a better than average knowledge of grammatical and linguistic terms.
On the positive side, Seward's writing is lively and interesting and he does a good job explaining a number of linguistic fine points.
 Japanese Language Guide February 12, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book was very informative and easy to understand. Learning Japanese is extremely hard but this book makes it a lot easier. It teaches everything from Hiragana to Kanji and also alot of vocabulary words. Great book!
Learning Japanese? This is the book to get August 28, 2005
76 out of 76 found this review helpful
The author clearly has a passion for the language and culture -- and he's been at it for quite some time. When you sit down to read Jack Seward's Easy Japanese, you really feel like he's sitting across the table from you, talking to you. And you should listen.
Mr. Seward will make sure you don't make a fool of yourself when you attempt to speak Japanese. There are little details -- but very important details -- he goes through before even beginning with the language.
What I've found most useful with Easy Japanese is the way he explains the why's. Japanese is full of little quirks you simply need to know about.
I was listening to how-to Japanese CD's and reading two how-to Japanese books at the same time. One of them is Easy Japanese. I took note how the other two would have me say this or say that and not explain why in the world that "u" is silent! Or why that "n" is it's own sylable. Easy Japanese does.
I haven't finished the book yet, so I can't tell you how complete it is, or what the final results are. But I can say now is that Easy Japanese belongs in your Japanese language toolbox without a doubt.
 A fun book February 11, 2005
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
People with some background in Japanese will enjoy seeing how the language has changed since this was written- yes it is out-dated in many respects. However, I disagree with one of the other reveiwers who says that watakushi is ike "thee". "Watakushi" is still in common use- but in formal situations rather than in casual speech.
I think the main use of this book is for entertainment- when you feel you should study but can't face your regular text. However, if you are looking specificaly for such a book -I'd reccomend "Making Sense of Japanese" by Jay Rubin.
NOT "easy" but interesting comments on common phrases April 16, 2004
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
I can't agree that this is "easy" - the grammar explanations are puzzling and non-existent in the case of uses of verb conjugations (except for the difference between plain and polite forms). The pattern exercises are fun and interesting, and there is a fairly good range of vocabulary presented. But the student will not find this an easy book to use if a beginner to Japanese. A casual traveler to Japan would, however, find the explanations of the most common polite phrases quite interesting.
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