Nakama 1: Japanese Communication, Culture, Context

Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours List Price:$138.76 Our Price:$127.00 Authors: Seiichi Makino Description:

Reviews:

I have fun learning Japanese!
Task that Nakama is an excellent Japanese handbook for a student of university like me. It has a total of 12 understood them, everyone that they characterize a main subject which the daily procedure, the family, the health, the restaurant, department store etc. Yes the book works more best in a classroom with the council of teaching. It has many interesting activities to make in a group with others classmates. When I have begun as soon as to learn the hiragana and the katakana, I really appreciate the mnemonic outlines that are rather amusing and therefore easy to remember itself of. As an example, it says that the hiragana? it is similar "to a no" smoking sign and therefore it is pronounced as "not". The book moreover has many images that make the divertimento Japanese learning. Moreover, moreover it introduces the Japanese cultivation in the beginning of every understood it. The book of exercises is not defective how much described from other critics us, at least it is large to me. I am taking to the code Japanese category for 3 quarters (months ~9) and finally rifinisco to study the book and to make the book of exercises. I can hour to speak a Pò about Japanese and to write a short test with a sure one kanji. I love Nakama and moreover I love to learn the Japanese a lot. I am going to take to the more codes category definitively and am going to buy Nakama 2!! The only defective thing approximately this book is the relative price. I have bought Nakama 1 for approximately $80, but holding account of the knowlegde that gain from it, I probably will maintain the book. I suggest this book all interesting to Japanese to learn.


Not a good book - Are there better out there?
Task that your answer to this book depends on as appreciate to learn one foreign language. Personally, I prefer ' the direct method ' that I teach, that it means that learned one foreign language in that language with the least translation in yours linguetta been born them. Nakama is not planned for the direct method and in effects it is not too much loaded far away with the English senses, the translations, the cultural explanations, etc. While this is comprehensible, in limited measure, with a handbook of the level of the principiante it would be better to at least begin to incorporate the Japanese introduced in the course in the text. I find that all English limits the rate to which ' she absorbs ' the language. The book in if it is structured enough well, beginning with the simple phrases and the hiragana and passing towards the kanji of katakana then. However, it could become more adaptable for use of the classroom adding poses or other such speaking activities. Basically, the book thinks overdetermined and a po' like a method of the cram-school to aquisizione of language. As far as the other materials, the trays that accompany the book of exercises are terrible quality - therefore a lot in fashion not to be able to understand the Japanese members of my family that what is being said occasionally. The book of exercises in if much inferior is printed on the paper from the quality that really must be fotocopiata before that it is usuable (less that you work to a separate sheet and simple writes your answers to the page of the book of exercises). In a generalized manner, not the formation or task value present of series of Nakama for moneies. You will conclude yourselves on branching off itself towards the outside ~$200 for with of the books and the tapes that really, to the conclusion of the day, really educational one does not give to the return much... Less that you have bonds teaching and friends/family in order to help it - than.


Most unhelpful
That is one poor justification for a handbook. We begin with poor and scatterbrained the explanations of grammar. The authors not only succeed to confuse that what would have simultaneously to be simple grammaticali rules introducing the multiple concepts of grammar, but often offer only a single illustrative example a.tito it. In more, the authors introduce the verbos conjugate several understood them to you before the infinites. The grammar practices serve to only confuse the students because they are often used in order to introduce the exceptions without explanation. The treatment express of the katakana (introduced in "understood it 3,5") moreover generates the handicaps for the students that last one during their according to semestre of using this book. The accompanying book of exercises close to useless has had the number of typos, of the disposition of the amateurish and agreement completely fictional (as an example, is a place in the note-book in which they refer to an illustration of the tree of family to page 95, but not is illustration to find to that page). The accompanying audio (I have tried the CDs, but I understand that the tapes are still defective) are than poor quality. A lot is bottom noise that desonorizza the loudspeakers. The loudspeakers same they have been defied apparently to speak fastly like could even so that the divertissero aborigines that they discern theirs meant. For the beginning students who have need of the clarity and the patience, this was scoraggiantesi. In short, I would strongly discourage the students from the taken one of the Japanese to their university if this text is using and hoped that the Japanese programs realized the bad quality of this so-called didactic text.



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