They have quite a few pages on Amazon. The stuff on intonation is interesting. It is all true, of course, but it's so subtle it's hard to pick up from a book. Probably by the time you can understand it, you can already do it. But it doesn't hurt to have it of course.
They have quite a few pages on Amazon. The stuff on intonation is interesting. It is all true, of course, but it's so subtle it's hard to pick up from a book. Probably by the time you can understand it, you can already do it. But it doesn't hurt to have it of course.
That's how I feel. I'm not too focused on the intonation right now - I'm just trying to build a vocabulary. The primary value of the book is the laying out of the Japanese sentence structure in a technical, engineerish fashion. I'm finally learning things that I've wondered about for a while.
The only complaint that I have right now is that the book is so thick with technical details - it's easy to miss something important because it's buried in with all kinds of other details. Not too big a deal since I may be using this book for quite a while. I also wish it didn't have an romaji.