Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Good approach for beginners

It was hard to believe folks were giving such high ratings to this book but reading each of the reviewer's notes it seems most seem to be in the beginning level, for which this book might be helpful.But even from a beginner's standpoint this book causes to lay on a crutch, Ro-omaji, or romanized Japenese words.The whole concept for this book lost ground by simply not including Japananese characters; Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji.Having Japanese characters is very important for whichever level.So, perhaps in a future edition of this book the authours and/or publisher will smarten out with an authentically bilingual edition.It would be superb also if apart from including the Japanese characters they recorded the examples on a CD too, but it seems too much to ask for now, as it is!Doomo ... Ja mata ne