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Genki I: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese I - Workbook | 
 enlarge | Creator: Japan Times
Publisher: The Japan Times
Category: Book
List Price: $18.95
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 79510
Media: Paperback
Edition: Workbook
Pages: 136
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 7.2 x 0.5
ISBN: 4789010015
Dewey Decimal Number: 495
EAN: 9784789010016
ASIN: 4789010015
Publication Date: 2000
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Product Description
Published in Japan, Genki gives a beginning student of Japanese a solid grounding in all four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Packed with easy-to-understand grammar explanations, a variety of exercises full of illustrations, and scenes taken from everyday life, the 23 lessons will have students enjoying the often tedious beginning stage of Japanese-language learning and will enable them to acquire a well-balanced ability to communicate in elementary Japanese.
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 Genki I: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese August 27, 2003
Darin Evans (Hiroshima, Japan)
22 out of 25 found this review helpful
This is the best book I have found so far (I tried 3 others) for someone learning Japanese from scratch. The grammar explanations are the best I have seen in any Japanese text, and the exercises are varied enough to keep you interested. The book is divided into two sections that are studied concurrently; dialogue, vocabulary and grammar; and hiragana, katakana and kanji. This system seems to work well, and the exercises for learning all the scripts introduce the characters in small chunks that don't overwhelm you. Luckily, romajii is dropped after lesson 3. I wish someone had told me about this book earlier.
WARNING June 27, 2006
Cindy Martin (Redwood City, CA)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
do not buy this workbook from here if it cost more than $25. Some of the sellers here are ripping you off. Look for it on J-List; it is only $20 there. And in some college student stores it is a little bit more, around $25 or $30 (but there's no shipping, so it's still cheaper).
 Perfect pace June 26, 2007
Sarah (MA, USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I used this workbook in my first year Japanese class in college. It complements the textbook wonderfully. The lessons are taught in a way that makes it easy to remember what you learn. This series has a rather engaging story about a girl studying in Japan, which makes it both entertaining and fun to learn Japanese. I accredit my now perfect Japanese to the Genki series. It kept me interested and motivated, while teaching me a lot. I recommend it to anyone who wants to learn Japanese!
Buy this with the Genki 1 textbook. March 5, 2007
~ (USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Be sure to buy the actual Genki textbook if you plan on buying this because without it, its pointless!
Using this workbook is a great way to learn the language (if used with the textbook). It was helped me a lot. But for some pages, you will need the CD.
I bought this from my college bookstore, it was a lot cheaper there.
Well Thought-Out Beginners' Course for English Speakers June 22, 2007
Steve S. (Los Angeles)
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
Japanese is a very difficult language for English speakers to learn. If you've learned some French or Spanish (as I have), forget about it! Japanese is many times more difficult. That being said, Japanese is also more interesting, in that it has a completely different structure and forces you to think differently.
Genki does a good job of presenting Japanese is an orderly fashion. The authors are all native Japanese speakers, and there are a few places where they make mistakes in English, but those small errors do not take away from the text.
Genki could use a few more sample Japanese sentences, though. For example, when they present a new pattern, they often provide just a couple of examples when ten or twelve would be better. I suppose they assume (correctly) that this book will mostly be used in a classroom setting, and that the teacher will provide additional material.
In the end, Genki is a good textbook, but you will need more help if you are going to learn to speak Japanese. That is not the fault of the authors, it is just the way it is.
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