Comments on: How To Use a Japanese Textbook http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/how-to-use-a-japanese-textbook How to learn Japanese. On your own, having fun and to fluency. Sat, 31 Jul 2010 06:35:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Johann http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/how-to-use-a-japanese-textbook/comment-page-1#comment-20342 Johann Sat, 23 May 2009 20:23:51 +0000 http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/how-to-use-a-japanese-textbook#comment-20342 NHK offers a free textbook at http://www.nhk.or.jp/lesson/english/learn/story/index.html It has 100 lessons, and each of them comes with 5 minutes of audio (around 30 seconds of which are in Japanese) that you can listen to while going through the text. I'd say it's pretty good for a bilingual textbook. It doesn't even try to waste your time with useless tasks, it just gives you a few hundred Japanese sentences with English translations, wrapped up in a little story about a martial arts student who comes to Japan in order to become an Aikido master (you can do a lot worse for a textbook story). But, I have to say, "mining" this thing got boring pretty quick for me, even though it's not all that long. I lost interest after lesson 36 or so... dem computer games I've got here are much more interesting, and going through them feels a lot less like work. Maybe I'll finish up the rest of the book in a couple of weeks or so... but for now, finishing Planetarian 〜小さな星の夢〜　and Ever17 has priority :D NHK offers a free textbook at http://www.nhk.or.jp/lesson/english/learn/story/index.html
It has 100 lessons, and each of them comes with 5 minutes of audio (around 30 seconds of which are in Japanese) that you can listen to while going through the text. I’d say it’s pretty good for a bilingual textbook. It doesn’t even try to waste your time with useless tasks, it just gives you a few hundred Japanese sentences with English translations, wrapped up in a little story about a martial arts student who comes to Japan in order to become an Aikido master (you can do a lot worse for a textbook story).

But, I have to say, “mining” this thing got boring pretty quick for me, even though it’s not all that long. I lost interest after lesson 36 or so… dem computer games I’ve got here are much more interesting, and going through them feels a lot less like work. Maybe I’ll finish up the rest of the book in a couple of weeks or so… but for now, finishing Planetarian 〜小さな星の夢〜　and Ever17 has priority :D

]]> By: efeilliaid http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/how-to-use-a-japanese-textbook/comment-page-1#comment-17734 efeilliaid Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:11:25 +0000 http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/how-to-use-a-japanese-textbook#comment-17734 Oh yes, Japanese for Everyone is THE book. In my opinion it takes you REALLY FAR and where grammar is presented, it's presented in a *useful* way. The accompanying audio ('out of print') is great too and you can get it here and there legally, as it's not in shops anymore. Oh yes, Japanese for Everyone is THE book. In my opinion it takes you REALLY FAR and where grammar is presented, it’s presented in a *useful* way. The accompanying audio (‘out of print’) is great too and you can get it here and there legally, as it’s not in shops anymore.

]]> By: Alex http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/how-to-use-a-japanese-textbook/comment-page-1#comment-9438 Alex Sun, 29 Jun 2008 04:26:19 +0000 http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/how-to-use-a-japanese-textbook#comment-9438 Japanese for everyone. Ok, bad textbooks aside, this one is excellent for both sentence mining. See, it doesn't explain grammar much and has A LOT of sentences. Barely any grammar at all, but still learnable. Plus it's less than twenty bucks on amazon. While learning kanji, I've been informally going through it and just absorbing the sentences. This is a VERY good source of sentences. You can go through from simple sentences to complex sentences, as a textbook would, which is an advantage. Japanese for everyone. Ok, bad textbooks aside, this one is excellent for both sentence mining. See, it doesn’t explain grammar much and has A LOT of sentences. Barely any grammar at all, but still learnable. Plus it’s less than twenty bucks on amazon. While learning kanji, I’ve been informally going through it and just absorbing the sentences.

This is a VERY good source of sentences. You can go through from simple sentences to complex sentences, as a textbook would, which is an advantage.

]]> By: All Japanese All The Time Dot Com: How to Learn Japanese. On your own, having fun and to fluency » The Thrilling World of Legal Documents http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/how-to-use-a-japanese-textbook/comment-page-1#comment-7118 All Japanese All The Time Dot Com: How to Learn Japanese. On your own, having fun and to fluency » The Thrilling World of Legal Documents Sun, 27 Jan 2008 03:01:46 +0000 http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/how-to-use-a-japanese-textbook#comment-7118 [...] only materials specifically and explicitly designated for learning are for learning. In fact, the materials designated for learning tend to suck; they tend to be the ones from which you learn the [...] [...] only materials specifically and explicitly designated for learning are for learning. In fact, the materials designated for learning tend to suck; they tend to be the ones from which you learn the [...]

]]> By: Duran http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/how-to-use-a-japanese-textbook/comment-page-1#comment-288 Duran Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:55:03 +0000 http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/how-to-use-a-japanese-textbook#comment-288 Absolutely beautiful! I wish I would've read this before chucking over $100 USD towards Japanese textbooks. Though, I suppose I shall squeeze my use out of them, as you suggested. Absolutely beautiful! I wish I would’ve read this before chucking over $100 USD towards Japanese textbooks. Though, I suppose I shall squeeze my use out of them, as you suggested.

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