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06-24-2008, 02:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Nathan View Post
I ran up and grabbed my みんなの日本語 set (1 and 2) just to check what you were referring to. By second book, I assume you mean an additional teacher-guide style book, because both of these are exercise books, pure and simple.

They didn't have anything other than the exercise books at the shop in Osaka where I picked them up.

I can agree on the no-romaji or English to fall back on being a bonus, but not for a complete beginner with no assistance. You need to have at least some basic knowledge (hiragana, katakana) and a dictionary. Without, it would be like throwing you a child's book in arabic script and saying "Okay, start reading!"
i'm sorry nathan, you either went to a dodgy shop or you have bad eyesite. in my searching around for japanese books in Okasa i found the grammar book in the series in multiple languages at all stores. i have them in my house. they are not teacher books, they are part of the set.

and no im not talking about the different levels of minna no nihongo which is 1 and 2. im talking about a set of books for each set.

here are the titles of the front cover of grammar book:

みんなの日本語
初級I翻訳・文法解説 英語版
Translation & Grammatical Notes

the whole idea of this system is that they can print one book that all students use in mixed native language classes (which is what you will often study in if you study Japanese in Japan, my class had chinese and koreans)
they can all then use the same book and have the explanation of grammar and translations/vocab in their own language.
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