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Good!	Customer Rating:
Needed it for a class I'm taking. The school book store was sold out. Arrived right when I needed it.

Not the best	Customer Rating:
Nakama text is very confusing. Genki or Japanese for busy people are much better if you are studying on your own. I had to buy it for college class. I wish they were using the Genki text or Yookoso text they are so much better.

Nakama1 Workbook/Lab Manual	Customer Rating:
The book came very fast with the free super saving shipping and it was new. It's a paperback book and the pages are made of a paper like newsprint (fairly cheap paper). Being around 50 bucks I didn't want to buy it but it was required and cheaper than the local bookstore.

No major flaws so far

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There are a few problems with this workbook...which isn't to say that it doesn't have value as a text. This book has helped me learn, without a doubt. However, it isn't as user friendly as I'd like. For example, there are a number of exercises that have a picture on one side of a page, and then questions about the picture on the back. There are also exercises that end on one page, and then a new activity continues on the back. This is only a problem if your teacher/professor wants you to tear out the pages, because then you're missing the first part of your assignment. None of these problems are critical, but it does cause a few inconveniences now and then. Of course, I've only completed the exercises through Chapter 5, so take my comments with a grain of salt.

Can you say "ne o fukikakeru"????

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$50 for this book is rediculous. And unfortunatley, if you have to use Nakama 1 textbook odds are you have to have this book to go with it. It is cheap paperback with "recycled" grade paper. Think of the kind that is in little kids writing tablets you get at walmart for $1.00. As far as the practice itself, it could be way better. Most are very brief, vague or very long and very repetative. "Fill in the blank" from a table of choices does not make your mind work to form sentences and understand placement or modifiers. Ok I get it, ~san's major is _____, so is ~san's and ~san's. Now how does that help me understand how the sentence and/or statement is created? I find when I do these lessons, I'm not really learning anything. Its not like any "Oh, I get it now!" moments going on. Its not completely useless though, it does help reiterate the same thing youve learned in the book over and over and over. I'll never forget yamada-sans major, I'll tell you that much. When you read the textbook, you'll know the saga of Yamadasan, Suzukisan and Alicesan.