--- product_id: 7367593 title: "Elementary Japanese Vol 1 (Tuttle Language Library)" brand: "yoko hasegawa" price: "€ 296.00" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 11 url: https://www.desertcart.be/products/7367593-elementary-japanese-vol-1-tuttle-language-library store_origin: BE region: Belgium --- # Elementary Japanese Vol 1 (Tuttle Language Library) **Brand:** yoko hasegawa **Price:** € 296.00 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Elementary Japanese Vol 1 (Tuttle Language Library) by yoko hasegawa - **How much does it cost?** € 296.00 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.be](https://www.desertcart.be/products/7367593-elementary-japanese-vol-1-tuttle-language-library) ## Best For - yoko hasegawa enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted yoko hasegawa brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Full description not available ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good, but needs more comprehensible input *by L***R on Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2020* I was drawn to the chapter organization of this book, which is shorter and more focused than the Genki textbooks. I also liked the many images and cartoon dialogs - these things help learning.I've gone through the first few chapters and looked over the rest of this book. I think it's a good book. But it suffers from too few readings and other language input in each chapter.A universal problem with language textbooks is the lack of extensive comprehensible input. That's what your brain needs to acquire language. Language is not a subject like history or science, where you study about it to learn the subject. Your brain acquires language in a specific way, and has special parts of the brain that handle language learning. So grammar exercises and vocabulary lists are not the way your brain wants to learn a language. That is doing it the hard, unnatural way. You can learn *about* the language this way, but that is not the same thing as actually acquiring the language. How many people do you know who say, "I took two years of Spanish/French/whatever in high school, but I didn't learn much." There you go.So I wish this book had a lot more easy readings in each chapter. A good modern language teacher would take this book and supplement it with many communicative activities where students use the language to perform meaningful tasks - that's the sort of activity your brain needs to learn a language.Also, this book oddly throws in things that are too difficult at their level. For example, in lesson 3 the core dialog talks about the college Japanese "program office." This is not high-frequency, beginning vocabulary. So in some cases this book makes learning harder than it need to be.I'm disappointed with this book, as a self-learning tool. I will supplement this book with the Genki series and with Japanese for Busy People, the other decent books I've found. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good for self-teaching *by T***R on Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2019* This is one of the best Japanese textbooks I’ve used. It is very good for self-teaching because not only does it have solid lessons and good vocabulary work, it also has notes on culture and linguistics. I highly recommend it for both self-teaching and if you are teaching a class.Bonus points for being very inexpensive.*fun fact, it’s used by professors at UC Berkeley for their Japanese classes ;)* ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Finally! A GOOD Japanese Textbook! *by R***M on Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2010* I've been disappointed with most Japanese textbooks (or teach it yourselfs) because most of them write everything in romaji (English phonetics) instead of using hiragana or katakana, the Japanese alphabets.This book starts out using Japanese characters from lesson one and ceases to use romaji very quickly. It makes the learner have to learn the Japanese alphabets.Kanji is also treated very non-painfully. Each lesson introduces a few new kanji and shows the correct order of writing them. Each lesson thereafter uses these new kanji so that the learner gets a chance to use them as in Japan.Each lesson starts out with a dialogue that has pictures and then a translation afterwards. New grammatical concepts or cultural connotations of grammar are explained with lots of examples. There are plenty of exercises to use for practice.AND...the textbook comes with a CD-ROM that contains all the dialogues read in Japanese. It also reads out the entire vocabulary list for each chapter. The PDF on the CD-ROM is printable. It does contain some listening exercises not found in the textbook, which I thought was neat because most CDs with language learning software just read out the dialogues.For maximum learning (and especially if you're teaching yourself), purchase the teacher's edition answer key that comes with this series. It has all the answers to both the textbooks and the listening exercises on the CD-ROM. In addition, it has the dialogues from the listening exercises written out so that you can check exactly why you missed questions.This is the best textbook I've seen so far for Japanese. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.be/products/7367593-elementary-japanese-vol-1-tuttle-language-library](https://www.desertcart.be/products/7367593-elementary-japanese-vol-1-tuttle-language-library) --- *Product available on Desertcart Belgium* *Store origin: BE* *Last updated: 2026-05-25*