I bought it new and have kept it with care. The pages inside have some yellowing due to age, but are in good condition. #GoroFujita #GoroFujita To understand a foreign country, the best way is to learn its language. This book, by a leading figure in #GermanLanguageEducation, provides a guide to learning German, using familiar examples and humor to help you understand Germany, a country with a deep historical connection to Japan. Instead of starting with grammar and verb conjugation rules, it uses approachable methods like comparisons to English and Japanese, and sketches of everyday conversations, to naturally help you learn German. This is an insightful introductory book by the author, known for "#Fujita'sGerman." "German is suitable for Japanese people" - Around the end of the war, we were in great trouble with lice and fleas, and at that time, Americans kindly gave us a white powder called DDT. The elderly often said, "Today, it's the distribution of Day-Day-Tay." If you're an English teacher, you'd probably be told to pronounce it "Dee-Dee-Tee," but with German, the elderly way is fine. In English, "Man" is pronounced like "Me-an." In German, "Man" is just "Man." The fact that "Name" in German is "ナーメ (Naame)" is a coincidence, but German pronunciation is very well-suited for Japanese people.