Review of A Japanese Reader - Graded Lessons for Mastering the Written Language by Rafael Santos

Presents 75 graded lessons for reading japanese. Each lesson has a text in Japanese and explanations and translations (reading notes) for some words in English. It is presumed that the reader has some background in Japanese. The first 12 lessons cover hiragana and katakana, lessons 13-17 some basic kanji, lessons 18-30 elementary reading, 31-47 intermediate, 48-59 advanced fiction and 60-75 advanced non-fiction, making it useful for readers from the novice until the upper-intermediate level. It makes a lot of references to Samuel Martin's "Essential Japanese" and Florence Sakade et al.'s "A Guide to Reading and Writing Japanese". It presents the words and kanji in a context in almost all of the lessons.

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