I'm learning to read Japanese, mostly just for fun. "Fun", yea. Any way, I've seen so many reviews of various language learning books that got 1 star reviews (would have been zero stars if possible), not because the book was bad or unhelpful, but simply because the book was written *in the target language*! I buy a nice technical Japanese dictionary, it had a couple of one star reviews only because the damn dictionary is in Japanese. Which they could have determined from the "preview book" feature of the Amazon site.
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I'm learning to read Japanese, mostly just for fun. "Fun", yea. Any way, I've seen so many reviews of various language learning books that got 1 star reviews (would have been zero stars if possible), not because the book was bad or unhelpful, but simply because the book was written *in the target language*! I buy a nice technical Japanese dictionary, it had a couple of one star reviews only because the damn dictionary is in Japanese. Which they could have determined from the "preview book" feature of the Amazon site.