Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5538 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese
| Message 81 of 314 04 January 2015 at 8:15pm | IP Logged |
It sounds like the main version is very similar to the TTMIK podcasts I went through last
year during my TAC 2014 run then, which is perfect. Those were in the 10-20 minute range
as well (with the later episodes it was tight trying to fit two of them into my 35-40 minute
commute) and also explained a lot in English (especially in the early lessons).
If I recall correctly, TTMIK was started by teachers that left KoreanClass101, so that would
explain why you've seen them both places.
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dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4668 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese
| Message 82 of 314 04 January 2015 at 8:46pm | IP Logged |
Warp3 wrote:
- What are your thoughts on this series and would you recommend it?
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Add me to the list of people who would recommend JPOD101. The only thing I dobn't like
about it is the spammy emails, but that's easily fixed.
Warp3 wrote:
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I paid, well my company paid, for a Premium subscription. That gets you all the PDFs
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all the MP3s. I didn't find the website-based functions that much use.
Warp3 wrote:
- Are there other Japanese learner podcasts that you would recommend in
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I haven't seen anything else that provides the breadth and depth of material that
JPOD101
provides. Every lesson comes as an MP3, often provides a dialog-only track (which saves
you lots of time once you decide that you want Japanese-only audio for a while) and
comes
with a PDF which includes a transcript (plus usually a grammar point or two).
They provide hundreds or beginner-level lessons, but, unlike plenty of other sites,
also
provide hundreds of intermediate-level lessons. I'd say the Lower Intermediate stuff is
suitable for JLPT N3 and Upper Intermediate is for JLPT N2, or thereabouts.
TBH, once you've worked through everything that JPOD101 offers, surely you're ready to
just
consume native media (on youtube, on news sites or whatever).
Edited by dampingwire on 04 January 2015 at 11:47pm
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jesm86 Diglot Newbie Germany Joined 3706 days ago 10 posts - 11 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin
| Message 83 of 314 05 January 2015 at 2:05am | IP Logged |
Hi guys,
I just joined the TAC2015 and want to become a member
of your team, because Japanese is one of the two
languages I am going to study.
I already learned the Kana, but besides that i am
basically starting from scratch. I will be using
Pimsleur, Genki and Remembering the Kanji.
My goal is to pass the N5 test on the first weekend in
December.
Here's a link to my log:
">jesm86 log
Cheers,
jesm86
Edited by jesm86 on 05 January 2015 at 2:15am
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Woodsei Bilingual Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Woodsei Joined 4800 days ago 614 posts - 782 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Egyptian)* Studies: Russian, Japanese, Hungarian
| Message 84 of 314 05 January 2015 at 2:28am | IP Logged |
Hi Jesm86, of course you can join and welcome to the team. Make sure to sign up over at
the TAC 2015 thread and the Wikia page. The thread has the instructions on what to do.
Good luck!
N.B. I can't access your log, and that's probably because of the buggy forum code. Use
something like Bitly to shorten your link so that it links well.
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Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5538 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese
| Message 85 of 314 05 January 2015 at 2:36am | IP Logged |
Jesm's link had some HTML code latched onto the end of it for some reason, try this link:
LINK
Edited by Warp3 on 05 January 2015 at 2:37am
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Woodsei Bilingual Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Woodsei Joined 4800 days ago 614 posts - 782 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Egyptian)* Studies: Russian, Japanese, Hungarian
| Message 86 of 314 05 January 2015 at 4:03am | IP Logged |
Warp3 wrote:
Jesm's link had some HTML code latched onto the end of it for some reason,
try this link:
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Thanks!
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dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4668 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese
| Message 87 of 314 05 January 2015 at 12:14pm | IP Logged |
Woodsei wrote:
Use something like Bitly to shorten your link so that it links well.
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I always worry about services like these: will they be around five years from now? If not
the links will have rotted ...
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g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5985 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German
| Message 88 of 314 05 January 2015 at 2:08pm | IP Logged |
dampingwire wrote:
Woodsei wrote:
Use something like Bitly to shorten your link so that it
links well.
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I always worry about services like these: will they be around five years from now? If not
the links will have rotted ... |
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For the purposes of a one year challenge I think we'll be ok!
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