Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4698 in Books
• Published on: 2004-09-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Synopsis
With a comprehensive pronunciation and grammar section, reinforced with tips on protocol and culture, this phrasebook provides all the survival words and phrases required by the traveller in Japan.

Customer Reviews

a good book
I found this phrasebook really useful. It was small enough to put in my bag and I used it everyday. Even when I could not pronounce certain things I would just show whomever I needed help from and they understood straightaway. It has both English and Japanese dictionary and it came in handy when I fell ill and had to go to the doctors. This is great for anyone who is going to Japan for the first time.

Poor indexing and unbalanced coverage
Having used this in Japan for a couple months, I find this phrasebook fairly useless. We don't even bother carrying it around anymore.

The indexing is poor: meaning that you cannot easily find what you are looking for.

The coverage is unbalanced: why does it spend so much space on phrases for talking to the opposite sex? If you need a phrasebook to ask someone to marry you, then you have a problem! Yet the coverage of useful phrases, food items, etc, is quite weak, with many useless things included and the basics missed out.

The romanization scheme used is non-standard, making it annoying to use in conjunction with other books.

Excellent Resource
I highly recommend this little gem of a book, it contains many phrases which can help even a child to get through Japan. It contains alot of other information too! Buy it! buy it now! :)