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Japanese the Manga Way: An Illustrated Guide to Grammar and Structure

22 reviews
Wayne P. Lammers

Stone Bridge Press, 2004

What I like and Think
I'm trying to learn Japanese on my own. The key word is TRYING. I needed a book that covers the basics and this is it. The topics progress naturally and the explanations are in layman's terms. I also managed to pick up a little vocab on the way. NOTE: Try making your own notes (condensing the chapters). That is the best way to learn and review. Also, have a notebook for the Kanji found in ...

The Tale of Matsura: Fujiwara Teika's Experiment in Fiction (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies)

1 review

Univ of Michigan Center for, 1991

Equivalent to Edda in quality...absolutely fascinating!
Very fun to read! I liked this book a lot. The Tale of Matsura is an ancient Japanese literature, written by an anonymous intellect of that time. This tale per se is such an amusing story, but in many other ways (what ways? Read and find them out yourself. I leave the fun part for you!), this literature will invite you to a voyage in medieval Japan. Lammres constructs this book with two parts. ...

Undercurrents: Episodes from a Life on the Edge
Shintaro Ishihara

Kodansha International, 2006

The author of this unforgettable, true-life adventure book is the outspoken Governor of Tokyo, whose efforts to rejuvenate and refinance the city have won over even those who thought him too unorthodox to support. What many Westerners may not know is that, before his political career, Ishihara was a prominent and successful novelist. Undercurrents now showcases his nonfiction writing with forty episodes from an active life that included pursuing ...

Still Life: And Other Stories (Stone Bridge Fiction)

1 review
Junzo Shono

Stone Bridge Press, 2008

A fantastic look into the human experience.
Nothing can be said or written about life but this book certainly comes close. Not only it captured the reader realization of the subtle life we might experience, this book will make you think about what important to one's life.

Mangajin's Basic Japanese

2 reviews
Vaughan P. Simmons, Wayne P. Lammers

Nippon Shuppan Hanbai Deutschland GmbH, 1994

Real-life (?) Japanese
This book (there are at least a couple volumes) is great! It's refreshing to find an approach complimentary to the basics one would learn in class, and we find that, just as in every other language, day-to-day speaking is often quite a bit different from the stuff you're taught in the early learning stage. And hey! You're reading comics! How bad can that be?