

My point is that there is so much content and so much detailed information within each of the 12 chapters that it seems very overwhelming and you might feel like giving up because the textbook doesn’t seem like it is ever going to end. Did I mention there are 518 pages? That’s more pages than 3 individual Harry Potter books which have less than 320 pages each (UK version). It’s too big, or rather it has an abundance of content within it. However, the vocabulary is indeed relevant (family members, body parts, useful adjectives, etc.), and I can guarantee you will need them all if you plan on being adept in the Japanese language and adapting to everyday life and everyday conversations. Honestly, I’m all for heaps of vocabulary, but at the same time I have to admit that 89 vocabulary words is a bit over the top for just one chapter. So, the biggest mark-off I sensed out of all 518 pages’ worth of lessons is that in any given chapter, there can be up to 89 vocabulary words (chapter 10), or at least that’s the most that I counted. Plus, I’d rather end on a positive note because I’m such a positive person. I’m going to start off with the cons of the textbook and workbook because it isn’t really that bad. The internet helped a lot, and by the time I bought the book (along with its workbook), I already knew basic vocabulary, hiragana, and some kanji, but I never imagined how much more I would know and how detailed the answers to my newfound questions would be by the end of the textbook.
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I had no idea about more complex sentences and phrases, idioms, etc., until I cracked open the Nakama 1 textbook. I wasn’t in the big leagues of linguistics by asking such small, childish questions like those above (although they did help with the very beginning of this journey). I felt as though everything I needed was on my computer screen but I wasn’t asking more interesting and in-depth questions. “Where are the question marks, and why does the period look like a bubble?” “How do I express feelings about this or that?”


There are so many PuniPuni videos and others like it online, so I thought it would be easy to learn Japanese because (as it seemed at the time) there was always a video which answered every burning question I asked.
