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I just want to let everyone know that I am SO happy I started learning with textfugu. I’m watching this professor teach this class, and, I don’t know how these other students are supposed to pick up on the prof’s stuffy-ass lessons…
With your help? ;)
Pfff naw, a lot of them don;t care enough to actually move ahead.
BUT, I’ve been referring everyone that does, to tofu/textfugu. Most of them aren’t crazy about paying another $120, after just putting down nearly $200 on the two textbooks we’re required.
Their loss.
Definitely their loss. TextFugu could make the class a lot easier and help people stick with it. At least you have a definite advantage!
yeh, just trying to keep up with this so that class is a non-issue. we’re going over 15 kana per class so far (until we finish katakana). nothing special.
the prof is recommending making actual (paper) flash cards, so i guess she’s never heard of anki or anyhting else out there. And since they’re still learning the kana, she’s writing in romaji of course, but things like “こんばんは”, she’s writing as “komban wa” which, i see where she’s getting the “m”, but idk.. it seems like something you wouldn’t want to make more confusing to the student just learning kana, looking for the “m” character.
I’m no professor. Just things I’m glad I already learned about elsewhere.
Yeah, it could easily be “pronounced” with an m, because the way “nb” kind of rolls into. But teaching it like that is a bad idea, I wouldn’t be surprised if people starting thinking that there is a single character for “m”. Haha is your teacher Japanese? (I had a Spanish teacher back in High school that was a typical white american, she was terrible compared to my next teacher who was from Puerto Rico.)
I’m still curious to see how this class will turn out for your classmates.
Yeah I mean, I don’t stress the “ん” when I say it.. Neither do I ever hear it like that, but yeah.. It seems wrong to put an “m” in there lol.
She’s a white american lady. She’s apparently been speaking Japanese for the past 24 years.. So, longer tha I’ve been alive haha. I suppose she might deserve the benefit of the doubt? Meh. At the university I know they have mostly native japanese speaking professors, so that’s something to look forward to.
Yeah I’m intested to see how the kid who wears a pokemon shirt and the fingerless gloves (non ironically) does, too. Haha
I know not to judge a book by it’s cover, but I was never taught to not take a book less seriously, based on the cover.. Lol.
Pokemon kid’ll pick it up so fast it’ll make your head spin! :D Has nobody ever told you us anime fans are inherently adept at Japanese?!
(Incidentally, if you people don’t pick up the thick layer of sarcasm oozing off that sentence, read it again in the MOST sarcastic voice possible just to be safe…)
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Ryuuguu Azuma.
He better pick it up so he can translate Best Wishes for me (=´∀｀)人(´∀｀=)
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Eek. Her way of teaching is going to make some confused students later when the class starts using kana instead of romaji.
Yeah it looks that way..
I’m kind of concerned how I’m going to continue my studies. Like, how I’m going to go about it. I have so much school work, that I barely have time to study lately (from textfugu), and eventually the gap of what I know, and what they’re teaching is going to start closing.
So, I’m thinking I might as well just learn the vocab/phrases that are in the textbook, hence on the tests, so I can still stay ahead.. but overall learning slower because it’ll be out of class lessons.. instead of on Fugu. bleh.
I’m not sure if that makes sense the way I phrased it.
I will say that Koichi really helped me get better at studying in general, so plowing through the vocab for each chapter should be easy enough.
If your still learning kana in class, learning words and phrases for a test should be fairly simple and not take too long (no ‘difficult’ kanji….boooooring :P )
If your really running low on time, do your -from class study lists and print out a fugu-worksheet every couple of days and work on that. Maybe try for one new chapter a week (or month depending how far in you are).
The way I used to think of it was that I was paying for the lessons, but nothing really sank in properly before the next week, so I started studying stuff at home and getting ahead. If we were doing Dates and Time next week, I would study it at home, use that lesson as my recap and during the start of the lesson the week after (where we think about what we did last lesson/test) I used it to cement it in my brain!
Why not grab one of the Core2/6000 decks for Anki and just get started on that at home? If you do say 15-20 new words a day you’ll quickly learn all vocab contained in the textbook and far more.
If you can stick around for it, a lot of those people don’t stick around for later years.
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