Review of Strange but True : A True-Life Japanese Reader by Jrg Richter

I bought the book because after a year of learning Japanese I wanted to try a jump into the cold water of a "real" Japanese text.

I have finished the first story of the book which took me several hours (yeah, the water was really cold!). For my level of Japanese the explanations were very good. The author explains

• nearly every kanji
• for many verbs its basic form
• what parts of the sentence are related to what subjects
• which parts of the sentence are omitted (in sentences without verbs for example)

All in all it was the information that I needed to get through the text which was high above my level of Japanese (i.e. to keep my head more or less above the water's surface). Good book!

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