DickMcVengeance
03-31-2006, 01:16 PM
I thought this might be an informative little thread for everyone, and hopefully I have it in the right place. I figured it'd be more appropriate here as opposed to the Bookstore. The idea is simple, review a textbook (any book with progressive chapters that attempt to teach you a language). This will hopefully help some of us avoid the pitfalls of buying books that were ineffective.
Title: Yookoso! An Invitation to Contemporary Japanese
This is a half-decent textbook to use in the classroom. Self-teaching with this doesn't work too well, as the chapters are long and try to throw random things at you. It's better off having an instructor weed out the unnecessary parts. I wouldn't reccomend it for self-study at all, and if you have this in your class, as long as your teacher isn't horrible, class should go OK.
Title: Yookoso! An Invitation to Contemporary Japanese
This is a half-decent textbook to use in the classroom. Self-teaching with this doesn't work too well, as the chapters are long and try to throw random things at you. It's better off having an instructor weed out the unnecessary parts. I wouldn't reccomend it for self-study at all, and if you have this in your class, as long as your teacher isn't horrible, class should go OK.