Janet Ashby

The book consists on five Japanese essays, organized in incresing difficult, with a dictionary of the used vocabulary at the back, translation on the side, and very useful grammar nottes section.

I'm getting ready for the N2 and this was perfect for it.

The fourth essay I found specially difficult.

I was really scared that maybe i wouldn't find the topic of the essays interesting, but I did. The first one is an essay about lies, another one was about young generations and rudeness, another one about the difficulty of translating words that have a hefty cultural meaning, another one about the concept of Beauty, and finally another one about creating and conveying a personality when writing.… (altro)