Learn Japanese with Manga Volume One: A Self-Study Language Book for Beginners - Learn to read, write and speak Japanese with manga comic strips! (free online audio) Paperback – November 28, 2022

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This absolutely helped my son learn Japanese as he is a huge manga fan and it made learning much more entertaining

I was expecting this book to be an immersion course into reading manga, and it is not. Over the past year I have made good progress on reading Japanese and I was expecting this to be a bunch of exercises for practicing reading. Instead, this is just another book teaching the Japanese language. I have read Genki 1 and 2 and this book covers essentially the same material. Unfortunately, there is very little manga reading in this book. It's mostly only single-panel comics or comic strips with 3 or 4 panels.I think this is a good book for a beginner who is willing to memorize Hiragana and Katakana from the first few chapters. I avoided learning Japanese characters for years and I regret not forcing myself to learn them from the start. So, this book is perfect to get you on track to using the Japanese characters.For me, this book is too easy. I ordered a Doraemon manga (a children's manga) and I will just push myself to read it with Google Translator in hand.I am giving this book 4 stars because it is a well-written and very thorough book... however, it's not really about Manga

As a former language teacher (Modern Standard Arabic and Arabic dialects) I can say that the methodology in this book is outstanding. I spoke Japanese quite well, 50 years ago(!) and wanted this book to refresh my memory before hopefully going back to visit. I will definitely be getting volume II !

My son has wanted to travel to Japan since he was 7 years old. He in fact joined the Air Force just so he could live there for a while (but also as a patriot who wanted help paying for education!) We gave this to him for Christmas and he was so stoked! He said it was awesome in that it creates a story line so you can see how the words are used irl. Very impressed. He took it on the plane instead of packing it 👍🏼

My biggest issue with most japanese learning books (this one is no acception) is that they shove kanji down your throat right off the bat.My issue with this is even in Japan they don't start learning SIMPLE kanji until 6-12 years of age.While you might think so?They learn hiragana and katakana first.Trying to learn 3 letter sets at one time is hard for beginners. Finding out how many kanji their are AND they can be pronounced more than one way depending on how its used its a bit much.I 100% kanji needs to be learned but maybe not RIGHT away.You need to learn to walk before you can run.Other than that this book is fun to use. The manga parts are a little out there but it's still fun to read.

Really will help us enjoy Japanese comics. Smart. I like Tuttle books anyway and this is one of their new offerings. Really a fun hobby-type book.