Posted by arren18 on 06.23.2013, 10:06 AM:
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Posted by Kazegami on 06.23.2013, 10:48 AM:
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Posted by arren18 on 06.23.2013, 06:53 PM: Doing both sections together is how we did it, so I think that's best! Do you have the workbooks as well? They're good for practice, especially with the kanji. Another thing our class did that I found helpful was used another book as well for kanji. Genki is good, but after a while it gets hard to remember them, and having them come up more than once in different books helped with that.
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Posted by husky51 on 06.24.2013, 04:31 AM: Hoping to improve my Japanese at least a bit, I went to eBay to see if they had these Genki books and discs you were talking about...
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Posted by arren18 on 06.24.2013, 08:05 AM: eBay might make it confusing. It might be better to check a regular shopping site so you can get an idea of what the different books look like. Anyway, there are textbooks and workbooks, 1 and 2, and 1st edition and 2nd edition. As it isn't for a class, I suppose the edition doesn't matter so much. Definitely start with book 1 though! The textbook comes with the MP3s, and contains all the main material and exercises, while the workbook is mostly for practice.
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Posted by husky51 on 06.24.2013, 03:25 PM: Thanks arren, I'll do that and believe me, the workbooks will help me... |
Posted by Mush on 06.27.2013, 01:50 PM:
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Posted by foreignfilmfreak on 06.28.2013, 07:55 PM: I wish I could learn Japanese in a classroom setting. :/ I mean, I did.. but I wound up losing interest. >.<
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Posted by husky51 on 06.29.2013, 10:01 AM: Welcome back, FFF, good to see you here...
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Posted by Mush on 06.29.2013, 01:08 PM: Husky, it almost sounds like you had a dream about Orphic Orkapi's blog! Were you up late reading it?
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Posted by husky51 on 06.29.2013, 05:05 PM:
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Posted by foreignfilmfreak on 06.29.2013, 11:08 PM: Hey husky, I think my boyfriend's friend lived in Yokosaka for ten years. Pretty sure that was the name of the place.
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Posted by arren18 on 06.30.2013, 05:52 PM: Does anybody know of good websites for learning Japanese? I looked around the other day and I've bookmarked a few, but I wonder if anybody has experience using things like this? Since I want to work on what I know over the summer, I thought this kind of thing would be helpful.
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Posted by Koda on 07.15.2013, 04:06 PM: Could we have a list of useful words, related to everyday conversations, anime and Ghibli ?
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Posted by Orphic Okapi on 07.15.2013, 06:17 PM:
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Posted by arren18 on 07.15.2013, 06:47 PM: Thanks! I don't think I came across that one, and I certainly didn't look into it. I have a lot of books and stuff as well now, but I'll check out that site if you think it's useful.
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Posted by Saddletank on 07.16.2013, 11:02 AM:
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Posted by Kazegami on 07.22.2013, 07:37 AM: I find this so rewarding. Those moments of 'oh my god, I can read more things!' after learning new kanji are just great.
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Posted by arren18 on 07.23.2013, 06:13 PM: I understand that! When you learn to recognise common characters it feels like a real accomplishment, and it is an important thing to learn. Recently I've been composing an enormous list of vocabulary, one item for every kanji in a list of nine hundred and something. Obviously I'm not going to learn them perfectly, but I hope that by practicing my big list I'll at least get to recognise them better!
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Posted by Mush on 07.24.2013, 09:11 PM: I've been using Japanesepod101 for quite a while. It seems like the website layout has changed a lot since I started (and, in many ways, not for the better). But the lessons are very good, and entertaining, and you can pick a skill level that feels right. The format is each lesson is starts with a short role-play dialogue, repeated slowly, and then with a translation, then a discussion about the new grammar and vocabulary that was used. In the intermediate lessons and higher, some of the dialogues become multi-part dramas that span tens of lessons, with plot twists and such. At the beginning levels they're usually simpler. They bring in more experienced voice actors toward the later seasons.
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