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Japanese Beyond Words
How to Walk and Talk Like a Native Speaker
Author Andrew Horvat
Publisher Stone Bridge Press
ISBN1880656426 [COPAC, Webcatplus, Wikipedia]

Review by Warren Savage

Approximately half of his observations on learning and speaking Nihongo I've heard or read before (example: At puberty, losing the ability to easily learn to differentiate sounds from languages other than your native language.) The rest of the information I got from the book feels like common sense (pardon my wishy-washy statement.)

Review by Stone Bridge Press

Learning Japanese is a challenge. And, as many students find out, memorizing sentence patterns, vocabulary, and lists of kanji doesn't necessarily make it easy to communicate with Japanese people. Barriers of culture and social etiquette can be just as difficult to overcome as problems of grammar. ... read more


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