Genki to nihongo wo manabu!

It’s been about a week since my copy of Genki Volume One arrived in the post. After receipt I spared no time in ripping open the brown corrugated cardboard pouch from Amazon, excitedly uncovering what I deemed to be my first proper Japanese language textbook. Yes folks, it’s finally come down to this.

Genki was the fruit born of a good few weeks worth of textbook research. It proved difficult, to say the least, finding information of any detail about the various books on offer, but after a good few hundred Google web searches I became cemented in my resolution to take the plunge and slap down £30.99 ($61.74). That horrendous price tag was the source of much anxiousness. “Would it really be worth it?”, I wondered whilst feeling slightly queasy after parting with so much cash on a single book. Now, all that was left to do was to sit and wait on Amazon to do their thing. More…