| Home |
| About |
| Archives |
| Links |
| Japanese |
| Anime |
| Arts |
| Books |
| CDs |
| Disney |
| DVDs |
| Family |
| Games |
| Japanese |
| Jpop |
| Manga |
| Memories |
| Movies |
| Pals |
| Photos |
| Poetry |
| Trips |
| Videos |
|
Latest Flickr
|
|
Latest Twitter
|
 Feed |
| Lonely Planet Japanese Phrasebook : 3 of 5 | |
|
10.24.2005
11:02 PM | Link |
 A foreign language phrase book isn't exactly something you read cover to cover, but I actually did skim through each page of this unique book, since it's definitely "modern" in its selection of phrases! I love to browse the Japanese language section each time I'm in a book store, and I was attracted to the cool color-coded layout of this book. After flipping through it a while, I decided I had to get it just because it was so funny. Along with the usual sections on taking trains and ordering food, this book has sections on sex and drugs (it makes you wonder what Lonely Planet expects their readers do be doing when they travel)! It's really funny to read translations for "I take mushrooms occasionally" and "You're just using me for sex." Joking aside, there's definitely some good stuff to learn here, but I don't like their use of non-standard Romanization. They always try to write things as they are pronounced, so they use des instead of desu, which drives me crazy. If you're just looking for a general phrasebook, I don't think I would recommend this one, since it's just a little bizarre, but if you're a semi-serious student looking for interesting phrases that don't often appear in other study materials, this is the book for you!
|
| Blogger | HaloScan | Levelfield | |
