Instruct: Classify a review as either positive or negative.
Query: Compatible in class

I used this book for my first year in college Japanese. I think the book follows a random order with story lines and vocabulary, but the one thing in order is probably the difficulty of kanji and grammar. The book provides okay explanations for grammar points, but you'll probably need a teacher to understand it better. There was very little culture in it to learn. Maybe I missed something, but I learned basically no Japanese culture in my classes. The book is mostly set up so that by the time you finish it, you can be proficient in the lowest levels of the Japanese proficiency test. When I took a sample test of a few questions, there was vocab and grammar and kanji that I mostly knew. They seem random to me, but apparently this is what is common in Japanese I guess? I think the book is alright if you have a teacher to go with it, but by yourself, I'd look elsewhere. Though, just this year, a new edition finally came out since the 90s, so I wonder how much they've improved.