Fortheo wrote:
I wish I had friends who would buy me these courses haha.
PS. This thread is really making me want to revive my Japanese studies.
And I want to revise my entourage.
Fortheo wrote:
I wish I had friends who would buy me these courses haha.
PS. This thread is really making me want to revive my Japanese studies.
smallwhite wrote:Fortheo wrote:
I wish I had friends who would buy me these courses haha.
PS. This thread is really making me want to revive my Japanese studies.
And I want to revise my entourage.
Seneca wrote:I forgot to include some information in my last post that may be of interest to others who come across this thread.
Regarding Assimil, when I was still considering Japanese With Ease, I contacted the company to ask about Volume I not being available in an English base from their website. The response was to apologize for it being out of print and then it was noted that Japanese With Ease will be published before the end of 2017 in one tome. No note on if anything is actually changing content-wise, but it read to me like it is purely just a combination of the older Volumes I & II into a single book.
I also found this Comparison of Japanese Textbooks wiki that seems like a good place to start for someone wanting to read up themselves on choices for the Japanese learner.
Sylarv wrote:"Japanese Sentence Patterns for Effective Communication: A Self‑study Course" by Taeko Kamiya
This is the dream book for intermediate learners. After you get down some of the basics of grammar, you still won't be able to construct a lot of sentences properly. In indo-european languages, you can often start producing correct sentences by the logic of your native indo-European language, but it doesn't work for exotic languages like Japanese. The basic "logic" of Japanese is different, so there's no way you'd guess it.
When I came across this book I felt like it was sent from heaven.
Seneca wrote:Sylarv wrote:"Japanese Sentence Patterns for Effective Communication: A Self‑study Course" by Taeko Kamiya
This is the dream book for intermediate learners. After you get down some of the basics of grammar, you still won't be able to construct a lot of sentences properly. In indo-european languages, you can often start producing correct sentences by the logic of your native indo-European language, but it doesn't work for exotic languages like Japanese. The basic "logic" of Japanese is different, so there's no way you'd guess it.
When I came across this book I felt like it was sent from heaven.
Did you get to intermediate Japanese via the classroom, or do you have advice for a beginner as well?
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