Yookoso means "
welcome" in
Japanese. Furthermore, it is also the name of a minorly good
Japanese college textbook for those inclined to study the
language. It is somewhat better than the other
textbook that is commonly used,
Learn Japanese : New College Text, however that last has enjoyed an undue amount of
popularity because it is so damn
cheap. You see,
Learn Japanese : New College Text is a cheap,
paperback book that retails for about $15, whereas Yookoso! is a more expensive hardcover text that retails for around $70.
Learn Japanese : New College Text is especially likely to be found in
high schools (as it was in mine), in which
students are not made to pay for their books, therefore the
school district has to take the bill, and therefore they are particularly inclined to go with the
cheapest text they can find.
Yookoso is fairly good about forcing the reader to read
hiragana and
katakana, and not use
romaji overmuch, however it is heavily lacking when it comes to teaching
kanji and the finer points of
grammar.