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Re: Japanese resources

Postby reineke » Wed Jul 04, 2018 4:35 pm

Japanese version of Harry Potter Book 1 vocabulary spreadsheet. Method and programs used to create this in comments.
https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/ ... er_book_1/

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone This includes most of the difficult words from the 1st book of the Harry Potter series.
https://www.memrise.com/course/55997/ha ... ers-stone/
https://www.memrise.com/course/223367/h ... ne-part-2/

https://www.brainscape.com/flashcards/v ... cks/672211

Starting over with Harry Potter

"The more people join, the better. There is a certain amount of tedium in identifying words, looking them up, and so on, and if we share that out we can get more return on our efforts.

I have text and audio, and I have just parsed the first four chapters into sentences. There are about 1500 of them, and I’ve also extracted the unique kanji. The kanji counts are as follows…

Chapter 1 – 569 kanji
Chapter 1 and 2 – 739 kanji
Chapters 1 to 3 – 893 kanji
Chapters 1 to 4 – 991 kanji

Some of those kanji are not in the joyo kanji, but the vast majority are."

https://hinapon.wordpress.com/2011/11/2 ... ry-potter/
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Re: Japanese resources

Postby devilyoudont » Wed Jul 04, 2018 5:54 pm

Hope it's ok to add

I've been using this site recently for reading:

http://hukumusume.com/douwa/index.html

It's a collection of folktales, fairy tales, and legends.

I find the level to be a little above NHK Easy Japanese. Hopefully by focusing on stories from Japan, rather than the sections with stories from a round the world, it gives more context into Japanese culture as well.
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Re: Japanese resources

Postby reineke » Sun Oct 14, 2018 4:13 am

Japanese Podcasts

Learn Japanese Podcasts
https://learnjapanesepod.com

https://www.japanesepod101.com

News in Slow Japanese
https://newsinslowjapanese.com

Easy Japanese
You can download audio and texts for the lessons free of charge.
The lessons are offered in 17 languages.
https://www.nhk.or.jp/lesson/

Children's stories with text
http://hukumusume.com/douwa/pc/jap/

Pete’s Mysterious Garage
https://www.tfm.co.jp/garage/

Philosophy ZOO
http://philosophy-zoo.com/archives/2180[/
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Re: Japanese resources

Postby Sayonaroo » Sun Oct 14, 2018 7:39 pm

TALK/VARIETY SHOW transcription site
https://tvpalog.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-2474.html

the person uploads the tv caption that airs with the tv program. Just click on the magnifying glass to search for your show and see if they carry the transcription to facilitate your learning.

**I use this site for london hearts, ame talk, hanseikai, tetsuko no heya, and much more!** i FOUND THE site when I searched 大往生で with quotes while watching ame talk: tachi to-ku (one of my favorite themes on ame talk)

I recommend rikai-sama for easy sentence-mining. it no longer works in firefox but it works in the pale moon browser. If you want to use the epwing capabilities (j-j dictionaries) mattvsjapan on youtube provides links in the video about MAKING srs cards
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Re: Japanese resources

Postby reineke » Wed Jan 23, 2019 7:44 pm

Benjiro's back.

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Re: Japanese resources

Postby eido » Mon Apr 15, 2019 8:42 pm

For all those intermediate Japanese learners out there, which book did you use to get there? Or if not a book, which resource?
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Re: Japanese resources

Postby Arnaud » Mon Apr 15, 2019 9:09 pm

In french, there is Cours de Japonais on YouTube.
It's a classical approach based on grammar (red videos) and vocab lists (green videos), the original feature is that the informal form is taught first (the polite form will be taught later) and a lot of examples are given with manga characters (so instead of "the cat is on the branch", it's rather "Naruto is on table"... kind of ;) )
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Re: Japanese resources

Postby devilyoudont » Tue Apr 16, 2019 9:28 pm

eido wrote:For all those intermediate Japanese learners out there, which book did you use to get there? Or if not a book, which resource?


I don't believe there is a single resource that will take you to intermediate for Japanese. There are resources that will take you to intermediate in a skillset or two.

Reddit has a "Starter Guide" for Japanese that more or less outlines how to learn Japanese. I agree with their recommendation of Genki as a starting point. I don't believe Genki will give you enough kanji for you to be truly intermediate, however.
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Re: Japanese resources

Postby tuckamore » Tue Apr 16, 2019 10:37 pm

eido wrote:For all those intermediate Japanese learners out there, which book did you use to get there? Or if not a book, which resource?

I didn’t really use a specific book. I’d say the 3 main activities that helped me break into intermediate territory were: (1) watching, or rather binge watching, lots of Japanese TV (as I improved there was a progression from using English subs, to Japanese subs, to no subs); (2) thousands of sentence cards in Anki (including my own and the Core6K); and (3) weekly in-person meetings with a conversation tutor. Of course, I didn’t use these 3 resources in isolation, subs2srs and the books Read Real Japanese, An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese, and Kanji in Context quickly come to mind. But, in comparison, I don’t think they had as much impact as the 3 I highlighted.
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Re: Japanese resources

Postby eido » Wed Apr 17, 2019 12:53 am

devilyoudont wrote:I agree with their recommendation of Genki as a starting point. I don't believe Genki will give you enough kanji for you to be truly intermediate, however.

What do you think of Minna No Nihongo? I know there's a fierce debate about the two of these books and there's much to be read on the topic, but I can't come to a good conclusion.
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