misha
Member
From: Sydney
Registered: 2007-04-05
Posts: 99
Hello,
I'm wondering if anyone out there has an opinion on this book. A description (in Japanese) is available here: http://www.japanese-nihongo.com/books/index.html . This is the second book in the list (the pink one).
We've been using it in a small group for the last two weeks, and so far have found it rather horrible. While we were capable of reading the text without any major dramas, the questions seemed to have been written with the sole purpose of fooling the reader. Even the native Japanese speaker in our group (the pseudo-supervisor) was misled on a number of occasions.
One of us has already passed JLPT2, and that person has the opinion that the actual test questions were nowhere near as tricky. Personally, I am planning to take JLPT2 this year, and am wondering if this is the sort of questions I need to expect.
Can someone else share their opinion on this book? Suggestions for other reading comprehension books would also be good.
Cheers,
Misha
Edit: fixed URL.
Last edited by misha (2008 May 25, 11:16 pm)
tjtuder
New member
Registered: 2008-01-03
Posts: 2
I agree with your friend, the test questions were not as "tricky" as these ones. And they are laid out differently.
I passed the JLPT2 in 2006 and had used this book, along with the unicom books for practicing reading.
I thought this particular book was the cheapest thing i had ever seen. I pretty much threw it to the bottom of the pile and never looked at it again. That being said, my reading score my worst out of all the other sections.
