Japanese Phrasebook | 
| Author: Yoshi Abe
Publisher: Lonely Planet
Category: Book
List Price: $8.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 194480
Media: Paperback
Edition: 5
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 260
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 3.7 x 0.6
ISBN: 1741042313
Dewey Decimal Number: 495
EAN: 9781741042313
ASIN: 1741042313
Publication Date: July 1, 2008
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Product Description
Order the freshest fugu, survive a karaoke session and know how deep to bow. Go beyond the shrines, sushi and subway and discover Japan through its language and people.
Our phrasebooks give you a comprehensive mix of practical and social words and phrases in more than 120 languages. Chat with the locals and discover their culture - a guaranteed way to enrich your travel experience.
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Great for travel January 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book was invaluable to us in Japan. The size made it easy to carry around and it had all of the basic words and phrases that we needed to communicate. (We did supplement with a English-Japanese dictionary for some words, so that's why I've given it 4 stars instead of 5.)
The English was spelled out to make it easier to pronounce the Japanese words. In cases when I butchered the pronounciation and was not understood, I could show the book to someone who would read the Kanji symbols to see what I was trying to say.
The book was organized in a way that made it easy to find the phrase you were looking for. I bookmarked frequently used pages so I could access them even quicker. This was definitely a great reference for traveling to Japan.
Very good in the beginning, but after that, it's ok February 14, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Just like I said. The first part of this phrasebook helps you understand grammar, small phrases, and many words, but after that it just tells you a lot of the things like sentences and more questions and answers.
I recommend this if you are travelling, but if you are just trying to learn the language, I would not recommend it because it's hard to remember all of the questions, answers, and phrases it contains from about the 1/4 to the end of the book.
But it was really good in explaining grammar, pronouns, and many other things. So buy it if you want.
 I was able to communicate!!! November 10, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I feel this book is not only usefull for comunication with other people during my travel but also very well prepare to be user friendly. It was exellent in my trip to Japan have it with me.
A must buy October 6, 2005
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
I found this very easy to understand, as did my husband who had no prior knowledge of the Japanese language. I read it many times before our trip, in order to remember important basic words.
We referred to it many times during our trip, and it was very usefull. I would suggest everyone purchase it.
Its small size is also great, easy to put in a pocket, backpack or handbag.
 Useful inspite of itself. September 1, 2004
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
I bought this on my first flight back from Japan after taking my first semester in Japanese. I thought that it supplied a ton of useful auxillary vocabulary to run with at the level of grammar I was capable of using. The book also has many slight mistakes, even I, a first year student, was able to pick out. It's got a few cute but dumb, potentially racist but we'll say ignorant drawings included. But so few that it cues one in as to how cheaply produced this probably was. I give it three stars though because I learned it forward and backward and broke it out numerous times to meet my needs in bars and train stations (never in restaurants for some reasons). And, to get me comic leverage in many conversations where I was not privy to the Japanese side of the chatter.
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