Minna No Nihongo: Beginner 1, 2nd Edition

Love the straight forward learning approach this book has to offer, along with the immersion and repetitive exercises, as this is the best way for me to learn and comprehend. The whole workbook is in Japanese, down to the instructions, so the accompanying Translation & Grammar notes Book is vital is you are introductory or beginner level….but I’d only recommend this book if you’re already familiar and have memorized the first 2 kana, as this book doesn’t teach you, or hold your hand in that regard. A CD also comes with the workbook which is nice, but I don’t have a CD player, so I can’t use it but you’re able to download the accompanying mp3 files on the publishers website for free, which is very helpful. I can see why this book is so popular.

If you're going to use this as supplemental practice, great. If you're buying this thinking it is a replacement for a book like Genki 1... you're in for a rude awakening. This book presupposes a certain level of comprehension. It also doesn't explain grammar points. It just shows them, and without translation. So, if you're getting this... just know that you'll need to have a separate source for your grammar and vocab study. Use this book with a teacher to guide you OR as a supplemental workbook. Done that way, this book is great. Used as a primary lesson book... it's insufficient.

Shipping was super fast (it’s Amazon so of course it was) and this set comes with two books. I haven’t opened them, but I believe there’s also a CD for the listening exercises. The seller was also kind enough to toss in some of those quick study sheets (grammar, vocab, etc) which was cool! For example, the vocab sheets have the word in English and hiragana. Definitely a good price for everything you get 😄!

Gran libro. Excelente calidad

Only annoying thing might be needing to get english translation

The textbook is fine just fair warning for future buyers— you will most likely need the translations and grammar notes to use this, which is SOLD SEPARATELY. Just a heads up in case you’re like me and didn’t realize you’ll need to make a secondary purchase, effectively doubling the cost of the textbook.

I’ve been studying this book for a while now. It’s a good textbook, I would say it’s on par with Genki to be the best Japanese textbooks. I personally think if you’re serious about learning the language then you need to have as many books as possible, so I own this and the Genki books and use them together. A lot of people say that you need a teacher to use this book, as it’s 100% in Japanese. I don’t think that’s necessary. Of course it helps to have a native Japanese speaker help you out, but there are tons of English explanations on the internet of everything in the book. What I do is I attempt to read the chapter and then look up any grammar/vocab I don’t understand. Ultimately this book will immerse you more in the language, more than Genki, and I think that is very important.

I CANNOT stress how good this book is! Like most people say, it’s all in hiragana, but the kanji is broken into the hiragana so it helps with pronunciation. A good addition to something else like duolingo, this book helps with basic, natural sounding conversation

It was recommended to me by my tutor and it’s quite terrifying being all in Japanese but I’m looking forward to using it in my studies , so very appropriate and fits the purpose for my studies. A good txt book. The print is very small which does make it difficult to read though.

Definitely get this if you are self studying. Its very useful

Une référence dans l’apprentissage du japonais, que je me devais d’essayer, et je ne suis pas déçu ! 1er point positif, et non des moindres : tout est écrit en japonais ! Aucun « rōmaji » n’est présent, même pas dans le sommaire ! C’est, à mon sens, la seule manière de réellement s’immerger dans la langue ! Cela demande néanmoins d’apprendre les kana (syllabaires japonais) avant d’entamer le livre... 2ème point positif : il est très complet, avec pas moins de 25 leçons dont la progression est logique, et même s’il ne s’agit que du tome 1 du niveau débutant (2 tomes en tout sur ce niveau), comptez au moins une centaine d’heure ou plus pour réellement maîtriser le contenu ! 3ème point positif : le vocabulaire est utile, et tous les exercices sont basés sur des situations courantes (au Japon du moins). Et mention spéciale aux audios de grande qualité ! Cependant, il faut bien penser que comme le livre est intégralement en japonais, il est indispensable (du moins pour les autodidactes) d’acheter le livre de « traductions et notes grammaticales » en français, ce qui double le prix du bouquin ! Mais ça vaut vraiment le coup ! Par ailleurs, je conseille fortement d’acquérir les livres d’exercices de la même série, qui sont d’ailleurs faits pour être travaillés en parallèle avec ce manuel, pour vraiment multiplier les exercices et acquérir d’autant plus les notions grammaticales et le vocabulaire ! Mais encore une fois, cela représente un coût... Pour ceux qui comme moi n’ont pas de lecteur CD, les audios peuvent être téléchargés sur le site de l’éditeur, qui est dispo en anglais et japonais !

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Ótimo livro de estudos.. recomendo muito!!