Japanese From Zero! 2: Proven Techniques to Learn Japanese for Students and Professionals (Japanese Edition) Paperback – May 1, 2006

If you are just starting, as in from zero, learning Japanese, then you need this in your studying collection.

This is a great follow up to the first book and is helping me get a firmer footing on the Japanese language. And I am able to use what I learn pretty quickly in conversation, the pace is quite slow but I feel that this is working better for me than being hammered with too much at once when factoring in that around this I do vocabularly reviews and also am progressing through Wanikani.The explanations are good and mostly clear. The downside to this book is that it has quite a lot of typos, and errors in it which really should have been caught, most are not critical though, you will find instructions to translate English sentences into English (umm, Japanese maybe?) and Existence Vebs (sic) printed on every page of the Existence Verbs section for example.There is at least one part of the book that refers you back to something you have already learned, but for the life of me I cannot find it or have any recollection of what it refers to as having already been learned. My guess is either this was part of an earlier edition but removed in this edition but this mention was not edited out, or its just wrong.Overall, compared to Genki I feel much more confident with my skills through the JFZ series. There are also very good videos on YouTube that cover the chapter contents which is helpful if your study is by yourself, it's good to hear it come from someone else to bolster your own understanding in your head.In 7 months of living in Japan I have gone from not having a clue what to say in **all** situations beyond a simple hai, iie, thank you etc. to being able to have conversations with work colleagues about a number of topics; that is a huge leap and this book series has been at the core of it.Looking forwards to purchasing JFZ3.

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This is a great book for learning Japanese. I downloaded this book on Amazon Japan. This did not work on my US IPAD. I had to download the books again on Amazon USA.

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