Speak Japanese in 90 Days: A Self Study Guide to Becoming Fluent: Volume One 3rd Edition, Kindle Edition

This book, "Speak Japanese in 90 Days" was a great help for my husband and me during our trip to Osaka, Japan. The way the author has designed the language learning curve is quite efficient as the book is divided in 90 lessons that you have to read as one per day.Each daily lesson has 10 vocabulary words for you to memorize and most of those daily lessons do contain some grammar structure to memorize as well. It is recommended to write down those 10 vocabulary words on 10 separate cards, on card's front face you will write the English word and on the back side you will write the Japanese word, you must say out loud each word in English and then in Japanese, in that way you will help yourself to memorize each word. The author also recommends to repeat each word at least three times a day in order to increase the memory ability of every single word included on each lesson. After that, you can try to make sentences with the words learned in order to improve your memory ability and language structure.An explanation about the Japanese writing system and its pronunciation is also described by the author.In our own experience, this book helped us a lot; although, we also carried a dictionary and other language devices, but still without understanding the basics of a foreign language, there is very little you can speak. Therefore, this book gave us a much better understanding of the Japanese language and its structure so it was easier for us to deal with several important situations as getting train tickets, ask for directions, buying food, get a room and some more regular daily situations.

The author breaks every lesson down into very small sections and explains everything in a very simple, easy to understand manner. There's also a ton of vocabulary to learn in this book which is awesome. However, in every lesson there is a section with example sentences. This would be really helpful if the words used in the sentences had been words the book had already gone over. There's also a small list of vocabulary words at the end of every lesson as well but oddly enough the words used in the example sentences wouldn't be in the vocabulary list for the lesson. I found this really odd. Why didn't the author just used vocabulary that we the reader already would know? Or at least include it in the list? I found myself having to look up words using a different resource in order to get the full benefit out of these example sentences. There's also a decent amount of typo errors throughout the lessons, but that's of course not a very big deal.Overall I've found the book really helpful thus far but every now and then it'll randomly refer to a subject that hasn't been addressed previously and not explain it. Almost as if the author just assumes that you already know, yet this book is aimed for complete beginners. This isn't a huge deal. I'd just look up whatever it is the book randomly brought up. But for a book marketed towards a beginner it seems to every now and then assume you know something without having explained it prior.But as a whole it was really useful and I love the amount of vocabulary it has in it. Next to all of the vocabulary and sentences is the romaji, kanji, and hiragana/katakana versions. This is really helpful for beginners however the romaji can be distracting when you are wanting to try and only look at the Japanese characters. Regardless the author explains everything in an easy to understand manner and its nice that the lessons are broken down into such small pieces. Ideal for someone who can only study for small periods of time everyday. A nice book to have for a beginner.

I was very skeptical when i saw this book but the price was nice so i gave it a try and boy am i glad i did!! Its every simple and theres not beating around the bush. Read one chapter a day, use what you habe learned that day all day, then repeat the next day while add in yesterdays learn in. Thats it! By doing this, you are moving what you read from short temr memory to long quickly and you remember better. The book doesnt give you to much at once either. Its about 10 words or so and 10 phases a day. I never felt overwhelmed and if i forgot, i can just flip back to that chapter and work on that word.Believe me, it works! I took 2 years of japanese, and this is book is teaching me faster and better than the class. BUT, you have to use it! Like they said in the book " the more you use it (the language), the better you become"

This is just a barebones phrasebook when it comes down to it. There's even errors in the very early lessons. 今日は、is technically the kanji for 「こんにちは」but no one uses it, and I've had people in chats respond with, 「ええ？今日は何ですか？」There's several examples like that, where it just seems a little off.I was really hoping for a little more depth from this booklet. The description makes it sound like an alternative to Tae Kim's guides, which it doesn't come close to.If you're an absolute beginner this might work, but there are better options.My main complaint is the lack of any real explanation of grammar.

It's a great book. The format it is made helps a lot to practice everything: hiragana, katakana, and kanji. Japanese isn't an easy language for English speakers. It will require serious commitment with yourself. The book has a large amount of basic vocabulary, has a lot of examples where you can use the words you just learnt, and whenever there's a grammar rule or something that you must know the author will explain it, which is really nice.In general is a complete book, well organized. If you are like me and you just want to know a medium-basic level so you can talk to Japanese people this book is good, however, it doesn't matter how good a book can be, it's up to you to practice everyday so you actually are doing some progress.

Its a great resource, but on some of the pages the print has faded which makes it hard to read the characters. Perhaps a problem during printing.

daughter enjoying the read, had begun self teaching by way of watching anime films- so this book will give a foundation of basic knowledge for a complex language with is' variations

Bought for my partner as joke present as he loves Japan. But was very disappointed when it arrived, the front cover looks very blurry, cheap and tacky. Sent the item back and bought another one which was much better quality!

It's good although it doesn't really teach you how to read or write in Japanese. I recommend the 'Japanese from Zero' books if you want to become fluent in all aspects of the language however this book does help with useful phrases.

Thicker than I thought! Had a quick glance through and I can't wait to start learning! Covers a lot and easy to understand! (As easy as it can be to learn Japanese) thank you!

I'm still going through this book but so far it's been really simple and easy to follow and I am learning Japanese from it.