Instruct: Classify the given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: worst. book. ever.

do not buy this book unless you absolutely have to for class. if you are learning japanese on your own, i highly recommend using the genki series for a beginner. i have studied japanese for 6 years and started using this book at my university (OSU) and it is beyond frustrating. any book that uses romaji beyond the first chapter is horrible. i understand that this is to be used with the written language book which i also use for class. even both books when used together with the language tapes come nowhere near the genki series, which combines written japanese with spoken japanese.you will learn very little vocabulary with this book, the grammar explanations are overly complicated (one need not be a linguist to learn a language) and there is an intense emphasis on rote memorization of drills.bad book. if you go to hell and there are japanese classes there, this is the text satan will use.