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Mangajin’s Basic Japanese through comics – Review

I recently was able to come accross this book, Mangajin’s Basic Japanese through comics, from a friend in my Japanese class. At first I was skeptical at how much use this book would be on learning practical Japanese, but I can honestly say I am/was impressed.
The book is broken up into 24 lessons (or [...]

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