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Thing about teamspeak is that (this wont apply to everyone) but if your anything like me and the bajillion others like me, using TS to talk will be a good start but if it actually comes to speaking to a live in-front-of-your-face person you’ll suddenly go “Crap! Your not a screen at all!” and draw a complete blank., so in that respect being able to talk to actual people might be useful…depends how you plan on using Japanese once you’ve learned some…
It depends what you want out of it and what type of learner you are.
If you are the type of person who benefits from having an actual teacher and classmates, then it may be good for you. However you are limited by the rest of the class and the set curriculum as to how fast you can go, so if you get ahead or lag behind your still stuck. If you can afford it and you like the idea of the extra help I say go for it.
Also, “i’m scared of creepy Otaku kids.” is probably the single most moronic excuse for not doing anything I’ve ever heard, people need to stop using it.
Sweet, first couple of practices pages are up with sentence decks, less than a week after I posted complaining I couldn’t find any useful sentences decks…yay coincidences! Also on the price thing, I must have like…£350 worth of different books and what-not, maybe more, of Japanese learning books and they ain’t taught me a damn thing…whereas fugu has taught me about 85% of what I know… so yeah…
Thats true, I keep forgetting how much it costs (advantages of early sign-up, eh? :D )
Unless your some sort of vocab god, if you start from scratch it should take a good while to finish the current content. The lessons themselves don’t take a huge amount of times but the ‘ultimate’ lists alone are taking a great deal of time for me personally. If you combine that with the fact that ideally your studying some kanji and practicing grammar and whatnot there should be more than enough for the beginner.
On top of that, depending what we actually get when the practice pages are released they should be all kinds of useful. I can’t deny that it would be nice to see a more content based balance between content and style but unless your already near the end, in which case you should probably be finding additional study methods and techniques anyway, its not going to make a huge amount of difference.
Yeah i’e got multiple scroll bars…
1. Are mini-lessons useful to you or no (please be honest!)?
If I’m able to do them they are. It’s nice to have things like this because it gives you a chance to actually translate something and prove you’re not just wasting your time. It’s more rewarding to translate some of the mini-lessons than to have a 2 pages of sentences of whatever a particular lesson covered2. Do you read the mini-lesson posts (please be honest!)?
I read them up until they stopped being posted every other day. They got a bit too hard!3. Are they too hard? Too easy to be useful?
The couple I answered I was able to do with a little bit of help from rikaikun. But they got a bit harder after that so i stopped posting.4. Should I do these less frequently?
Perhaps instead of doing them less frequently, alternate difficulty levels so each level of learner gets a new one every couple of days.5. Is certain content better for mini lessons in your opinion? What’s the best kind of mini-lesson content? What’s the worst?
Anything and everything is good really as long as its from a Japanese source. Real-world application and all that…6. Are you just waiting for others to respond to see the answers? Are you answering on your own but not posting up?
I have answered and posted on most of the ones I felt confident about. There was only 1 I didn’t post on at the beginning because I thought everyone else had already done it and it was just another post of the same answers.7. Anything else that might be helpful? :D
Different difficulty levels.
Grammar parts specific to chapters…stick ‘em IN the chapters with a little doodle or something.I liked the idea of having the little dialogues to translate, made me think it might be nice to have something like that at the end of a chapter/season. Just a little badly drawn comic with some of the grammar points/kanji and what-have-you in there so at the end of a chapter and a series we have something we can read with what we’ve learned rather than making it up.
The language tool should be on your mac by default, have a look in your language settings and start clicking buttons
ひぐらしのなく頃に is most definitely the sex, however I wouldn’t call it a beginners one…one day i’ll be good enough to read it…
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!
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.
S2 is definitely more fun. It’ll be the point where you realise you can actually DO something with Japanese…
I’ve tried it several times before however its only more recently I’ve gotten anything out of it.
Being able to understand minor grammar pieces is a hell of a rush as far as I am concerned, although I’m sure understanding a full conversation would be better xD
Depending on the show you watch you have potential for a good range of different voices and politeness levels, so thats always helpful too
There seem to be a few types of people in this world.
Those who hate anime/manga on principle.
Those who think anime/manga is inherently different to western cartoons.
Those who think anime/manga are exactly the same.ALL THESE PEOPLE ARE WRONG.
In essence, anime and manga are cartoons and comic books. That’s how I am told the Japanese people see it, and that’s how it should most likely be seen. It certainly is different, depending on what you watch/read it covers a much wider range of stuff than western cartoons.
Some of it is fantastic, some of it outright sucks. It’s the same as watching literally anything else in the world ever. It gets a bad rep from a lot of people who have never really watched anything good. (that and the really weird stuff…)
If you have any interest at all in rock/metal and the like I can recommend…
Anthem
Concerto Moon
Loudness
Maximum the Hormone
X Japanprobably loads more that I haven’t listened to in a while
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