this is a book i bought in japan at a bookstore in ginza. rie helped me pick it out. so far i’m on chapter 3 and it’s really helping me with my nihongo. i also bought a few other books to help out but they did not seem to teach as smoothly as this book has done. i first started after borrowing a ‘let’s learn hiragana’ book from my friend. i later ordered a ‘let’s learn katakana’ book from amazon. progress has been slow but lately my intake has improved. partially due to my recent visit to japan and since riechan speaks as her native tongue.