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- "そのきょうかしょはむずかしくないです。"
"そのきょうかしょはむずかしくないです。"
Translation:That textbook is not difficult.
August 27, 2017
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The way it was taught to me in my high school class is that この is for things near the speaker, その for those near to the listener, and あの for those far from both.
English doesn't really capture this nuance (as is the case with many other things in Japanese) but "that ... over there" is a decent translation for あの if you really want to distinguish between the three in English.