Essential Japanese: Speak Japanese with Confidence! (Japanese Phrasebook & Dictionary)PHRA (Essential Phrasebook and Dictionary Series) Paperback – August 10, 2012

This book has hundreds of spelling mistakes and missing letters within the romanized sounds alone. Sadly, most of the people that will likely buy this book are only going to study the "romaji", which this book also does not use correctly. I believe they were trying to use "native-ish" spelling and sounds, but instead just messes it all up. You might feel confident, but you'll sound like you learned from a potato.I highly DO NOT recommend this book for anyone. There are many other books out there that do the same thing, but with much better editing, usage, and direction.