Ogien Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5925 days ago 8 posts - 9 votes Speaks: Polish, English*
| Message 1 of 7 20 September 2008 at 4:04pm | IP Logged |
I would like to start learning Japanese. I prefer free material over the internet. Someone suggested using this site: http://kanji.koohii.com/ to learn kanji. It seems like a great site. It has virtual flash cards where you associate the kanji character with its meaning in English. Is this a good idea? Wouldn't it be better to also have the meaning in Japanese?
Anyway, I suppose that's a great site for learning kanji. What should I use to target the other challenges such as vocabulary, grammar, and the other two writing systems?
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Akatsuki Triglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 6308 days ago 226 posts - 236 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, French, English Studies: Norwegian
| Message 2 of 7 20 September 2008 at 4:11pm | IP Logged |
Search the forum for Japanese you will find many books recomendations, methodes etc.
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Arcade Kid Newbie United States myspace.com/xharajuk Joined 5911 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Studies: Japanese
| Message 3 of 7 28 September 2008 at 10:46am | IP Logged |
You can't become semi fluent by just using online resources, you need to get a good textbooks that will teach you grammar, vocab, and kanji. Genki I is a really good teaxtbook. It comes in four volumes, I, II, III, IV. The examples are great in it, and it's a good book even for complete beginners.
www.thejapanshop.com There is where I got my copy.
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Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6449 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese
| Message 4 of 7 28 September 2008 at 12:07pm | IP Logged |
Arcade Kid wrote:
You can't become semi fluent by just using online resources, you need to get a good textbooks that will teach you grammar, vocab, and kanji. |
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Untrue.
Textbooks are helpful, but people have become fluent without them.
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OneEye Diglot Senior Member Japan Joined 6860 days ago 518 posts - 784 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, Taiwanese, German, French
| Message 5 of 7 28 September 2008 at 11:08pm | IP Logged |
Read this site. I can't really offer any better advice. It's an absolute goldmine. Here's the table of contents. Make sure to read this page especially.
And forget about textbooks.
Edited by OneEye on 28 September 2008 at 11:09pm
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Rekunoto Senior Member United States Joined 6185 days ago 104 posts - 105 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Mandarin
| Message 6 of 7 30 September 2008 at 7:16pm | IP Logged |
Arcade Kid wrote:
You can't become semi fluent by just using online resources. |
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When did you decide this?
Edited by Rekunoto on 30 September 2008 at 7:20pm
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Monox D. I-Fly Senior Member Indonesia monoxdifly.iopc.us Joined 5145 days ago 762 posts - 664 votes Speaks: Indonesian*
| Message 7 of 7 02 September 2017 at 4:42pm | IP Logged |
Try www.tanoshiijapanese.com . That's what I use.
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