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I really have no idea what I’d like to see. There’s a ton that’s not covered, so it’s really hard for me to pick an area. Maybe conditionals, instead of just having と. It’s hard to think of stuff off the top of my head. It would just be nice to have lessons more often, but I knew this when signing up and it’s been beaten to death so…
Japanese Sentence Patterns for Effective Communication is really awesome for sentence examples of grammar. Feel like I’m learning a lot, or should be. :P
Who is this Tom impostor guy? Away with you!
I’ve done RTK and Textfugu as well. I started RTK at around the end of Season 2, which is the earliest I would recommend. It’s helpful to have learned all the hirgana, katakana, and have some vocab/sentences going in Anki so that while you’re doing RTK your brain is getting adjusted to the “alphabets” and some words.
I started off doing RTK alongside lessons, but then halfway through focused solely on RTK so I could get it over with, but do what feels most comfortable and the most IMPORTANT thing is to ALWAYS do your reviews, and on top of that, don’t burn yourself out.
I still continued my Textfugu Kanji learning (as in kept doing reviews during RTK, and then continued with it afterwards, the kani+readings, not the mnemonics), as I found it didn’t interfere with RTK at all. Most of the Kanji have the same or similar meaning so it’s not a difficult mental adjustment. If anything, continue learning the readings from Textfugu as those are pretty helpful.
I would definitely get rid of the Radicals deck, and all future radical learning. It gets really confusing as Textfugu and RTK’s radicals are completely different. Once you finish with RTK, you will mostly know Textfugu’s kanji, and in the event that there is a new one, you will be a mnemonic boss so can make up your own in the odd case.
This website will make your life much much easier. The stories in RTK are boring most of the time, many of the stories here will stick with you for life (even when you don’t need them anymore). You can download an ordered RTK deck in Anki, and release the suspended cards as you go through the book. Add the stories off the website (or your own), to the back of the cards.
RTK is not for everyone (nor is any method), but I’d say it was one of the most important things I did in my learning, as my brain was just not coping with kanji at that point.
Remember it’s an exception. http://www.textfugu.com/season-5/dict-verbs/3-5/#top
The る at the end is not a “real” one like the rest of the group 1 verbs.
Like 見ますー＞見るー＞見て,
起きますー＞起きる (instead of going to おく)ー＞起きて-
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Beginners helping beginners, chaos imminent.
私も魚を食べました <— Someone else ate fish, and now you too, also ate fish. Me also fish ate
私は魚も食べました.<— You ate something else, and now you ate fish also. Me fish also ate
I’m a little fuzzy on the explanation of your first question, so I won’t confuse you further. :)
I second Jpod as pretty awesome for reading and listening. They are definitely spammy/scammy though, which turned me off of them at first. You can find the pdf’s around though.
I don’t think it’s as bad as all that. I think there’s still plenty of passion left. I do agree the greed is pretty terrible. I think both of you guys disillusionment is due to being Arsenal fans, I feel bad for you guys. :P
>>> There is a lot of English in them though, so, if you are going totally immersion, it may not be for you.
The intermediate level drops a ton of the English out, and I’m assuming advanced does as well, so if you’re going for immersion you can just bump up the difficulty. I’m finding Jpod really really awesome for reading (.pdf’s of the conversation) and listening. Being able to read conversations and then listen to them, and then have people talk about the contructions, nuances etc. is really helpful.
I’m not sure I would use it to solely learn, but as a place for reading/listening practice it’s been really helpful.
Well this is a bit late. :)
This is also the the first time where I watched different sports, was quite interesting. I never though cycling around a nascar track could be so interesting. It’s always nice to see the home country doing well. I didn’t get to see much of the football at all (work, and lame TV coverage). I caught piece of the Canada vs. USA women’s, which was really good and depressing.
I’m contemplating going for World Cup 2014, never thought I would be that interested in Olympics until I watched through this one, so that’s an option too.
@kanjiman
I’m using the 1999 version. There are some archaisms in it that you have to watch out for, but Textfugu and DoBJ help with that. There is a reading section at the back that is not immediately apparent, though it only starts to get interesting around chapter 8 I think. I agree on the self learning, textfugu helped a TON with getting over the initial humps and learning about resources (like anki and Lang 8).You should be able to go through I think the first 6 chapter of genki with ease after textfugu (roughly).
Core6k is really nice because as a beginner you are not exposed to vocab (like through reading books) so it is an easy way to study vocab without having to do any collection work. Hopefully I will be reading by the time I finish.
@Clement
I think kanjiman answered best. Maybe rerelease was the wrong word. Resale? Hehe I don’t know. :P@kanjiman
I just typed up a long answer that the internet ate and now I am sad.I finished season 7 before the new new stuff. Finished Genki 1, I like it for the reading section as you know all the grammar and 90% of the vocab so it’s good practice and motivating. I’m not a fan of the teaching, they don’t explain things very well to me, but I use A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar alongside it, which I really like. I’d like to use Effective Communication but that re-releases next month. I’m going through Core6k as well, though more in order of vocab words I discover from learning
If you can get your hands on genki from the library, or something, it’s nice to have for the reading section. Not sure I would pay for it though, especially as you will know 70% of Genki 1 from doing textfugu.
@unit breaker
Those little things keep adding up. :-)I thought they were “Nouncy adverbs”. :P
Yeh it was a bit sad, looked like his best chance. Think he kinda gave up after being broken in the third set. He was so close in the second, and then to have that happen. Not sure the stars will align for him at Wimbledon again like that but who knows.
You can do this while driving too with the speedometer, odometer, speed signs, number plates etc etc. We’re surrounded by numbers all the time we just never really notice because we’re so accustomed to seeing them.
>>>Haha, what are you famous for?
I haven’t decided yet. =) There are a ton of problems with our cricket now, but if you’re not a purist Gayle and Narine have been lighting up IPL. When Narine is bowling well it’s fascinating to watch. -
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