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A review by pastaviking
Genki I: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese by Eri Banno
3.0
This relies heavily on a complementary CD, which is sometimes helpful, and sometimes not. Since i went through this as a textbook, I probably didn't have the casual reading experience.
However, I didn't always find it easy to follow. The book assumes that you follow its internal logic/navigation system, which I never quite clicked with. I wanted/needed to see many more examples of verb conjugation, etc. and they simply were not provided. You would not a lot of outside help to actually learn things with accuracy.
In some ways, I preferred this to the previous textbook I used (published by the Japan Times)... but it still seems that someone can swoop in and dominate the US Japanophiliac market.
However, I didn't always find it easy to follow. The book assumes that you follow its internal logic/navigation system, which I never quite clicked with. I wanted/needed to see many more examples of verb conjugation, etc. and they simply were not provided. You would not a lot of outside help to actually learn things with accuracy.
In some ways, I preferred this to the previous textbook I used (published by the Japan Times)... but it still seems that someone can swoop in and dominate the US Japanophiliac market.