Speak Japanese in 90 Days: A Self Study Guide to Becoming Fluent

I am on Day 7 now and I’m just as excited and pumped as I was on Day 1. I am retaining all the words and grammar as well as sentences, I feel like I finally found my solution for learning Japanese. I tried Duolingo for years and although I learned many words, there wasn’t nearly enough grammar. Also over time I got tired of trying to make it to the top spot, repeating the same lessons over cause I got tired of it. I also tried Pimsleur which unfortunately the lessons are very long and drawn out. I also hired a tutor via Preply but the tutor spoke most of the lesson so it wasn’t very effective. I have tried learning Nihon for the past few years off and on. Me and my husband spent a whole month there last year and will be back soon. I am excited to finally be somewhat fluent to be able to communicate on our next trip.With this book, I have been really enjoying learning! I created my own flash cards as mentioned in the book and it has been very effective for me. The book is broken down into daily lessons and he lays out a plan for memorization, it is perfect. I have literally been taking time every day to do the next day’s lesson and it is seriously working! I am super excited and can’t wait til the end of the 90 days to update this comment. I think to add more accountability at the end of each week I’ll create a video of my progress, going through each flash card for that week.I highly recommend this book! Itterasshai!

This book is an excellent learning tool!What I like best about it, and what sets this book apart from others, is that words are written in hiragana and katakana first, and added in the second place are the kana plus kanji writing.Furigana and Romaji are helpful, but at times it can overwhelm the new learner, so to keep it simple is a must. And that book does exactly that. It is written by a Western speaker who now became a teacher of that beautiful language. So, he knows exactly how to tech it in a way that the learner still feels motivated despite the Mt.Fuji's size of learning, and eventually achieve a conversational level and later on - a mastery level (a coveted goal and dream of every student who chooses Japanese as a second (or 3rd, 4th, 10th language.This book motivated me to practice writing hiragana, and now I'm able to do so with ease (photo enclosed).

The author breaks every lesson down into very small sections and explains everything in a very simple, easy to understand manner. There's also a ton of vocabulary to learn in this book which is awesome. However, in every lesson there is a section with example sentences. This would be really helpful if the words used in the sentences had been words the book had already gone over. There's also a small list of vocabulary words at the end of every lesson as well but oddly enough the words used in the example sentences wouldn't be in the vocabulary list for the lesson. I found this really odd. Why didn't the author just used vocabulary that we the reader already would know? Or at least include it in the list? I found myself having to look up words using a different resource in order to get the full benefit out of these example sentences. There's also a decent amount of typo errors throughout the lessons, but that's of course not a very big deal.Overall I've found the book really helpful thus far but every now and then it'll randomly refer to a subject that hasn't been addressed previously and not explain it. Almost as if the author just assumes that you already know, yet this book is aimed for complete beginners. This isn't a huge deal. I'd just look up whatever it is the book randomly brought up. But for a book marketed towards a beginner it seems to every now and then assume you know something without having explained it prior.But as a whole it was really useful and I love the amount of vocabulary it has in it. Next to all of the vocabulary and sentences is the romaji, kanji, and hiragana/katakana versions. This is really helpful for beginners however the romaji can be distracting when you are wanting to try and only look at the Japanese characters. Regardless the author explains everything in an easy to understand manner and its nice that the lessons are broken down into such small pieces. Ideal for someone who can only study for small periods of time everyday. A nice book to have for a beginner.

The book is called Speak Japanese in 90 Days. As a tool for learning how to speak Japanese, this is a great resource. I have a fairly large Japanese vocabulary already, from watching Japanese shows, but I needed to learn how to structure them in sentences as well as grammar. This book helps me with this. It divides the lessons into 10 vocabulary words for each day. It starts off at beginners level; how to pronounce the vowels, a chart of katakana, etc. Then the first lesson is structured as so:1. english word in bold romaji katakanaThe setup is very easy to understand and the next page includes sentences using those 10 words as well as other words which you can familiarize yourself with. There can be lengthy pages of him explaining grammar which I thought could be laid out better than just paragraphs, but it is easy to understand once you looks past the huge paragraphs. I bought this book as well as Japanese From Zero. I actually prefer this book better in learning new words as well as sentence structure. However, if you lack motivation it is very easy to fall behind and forget what you have learned before.What this lacks in it encouragement to learn how to read and write the Japanese alphabet. However, this book is called SPEAK Japanese, so you shouldn't expect it to. I would say the biggest con of this book, is that there is no vocabulary in the back. So if I forgot the work for apple, I cannot just go and find it in the back. I would have to actually search for it through the book. But Google is a useful tool as well :)Overall, I think this is a great resource for beginners to learn how to become proficient enough in speaking Japanese that they can go to japan with ease of mind.