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| aokoye Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5542 days ago 235 posts - 453 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: Dutch, Norwegian, Japanese | Message 1 of 9 20 June 2012 at 3:23pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I am just starting to study Japanese again and am at a false beginner stage. I have a large amount of time to
study during the day and have been studying 3+ hours a day with out any difficulty as far as getting tired mentally goes. I have studied German as well and know that a. my priorities tend to lie in reading and b. reading is the hardest skill for me to grasp. For these reasons I want to spend extra time on reading. That said, I also need readings that have either furigana, a vocabulary list, or parallel texts. If anyone has ideas they would be much appreciated. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Umin Triglot Newbie Germany despairedreading.worRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4548 days ago 37 posts - 52 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Japanese Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 2 of 9 20 June 2012 at 5:41pm | IP Logged | |||||
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You may want to try the online Japanese course of the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
It can be found here: http://jplang.tufs.ac.jp They have dialogues for the beginner's level, and texts for the intermediate leve. As a "fake beginner", I guess you could try the texts for intermediate. They don't have furigana, but vocab lists. You can also use Rikai-chan to find out how a word is read, and you can actually listen to the texts being read out, which also tells you the reading. Since you know German, you may also find this digitalized version of an old German textbook for Japanese interesting: http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~heha/j/buchtext/Index.htm 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| schoi Newbie Canada sumchoi.com Joined 4544 days ago 3 posts - 4 votes Speaks: English* | Message 3 of 9 21 June 2012 at 9:03am | IP Logged | |||||
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I've been using the textbook series "Japanese For Busy People" since the beginning. The "Japanese For Busy People"
series also have tapes and videos but they cost extra. Completing the entire series will only help you reach an intermediate level but I highly recommend it. The "Genki" series is more popular and is used by many universities but i have never used it, so I can't comment about it. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Heavyweight Diglot Newbie Sweden Joined 4566 days ago 12 posts - 19 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Japanese | Message 4 of 9 21 June 2012 at 12:08pm | IP Logged | |||||
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http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/easy/
This website has some reasonably easy texts to read. Good place to practice. 9 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5035 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 5 of 9 21 June 2012 at 4:39pm | IP Logged | |||||
THANK YOU! I've been looking for something like this for a while and not been able to find it, even when I am on NHK's site. What a great discovery. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| aokoye Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5542 days ago 235 posts - 453 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Dutch, Norwegian, Japanese | Message 6 of 9 21 June 2012 at 11:25pm | IP Logged | |||||
Thank you so much! I totally forgot about that website! 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Heavyweight Diglot Newbie Sweden Joined 4566 days ago 12 posts - 19 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Japanese | Message 7 of 9 22 June 2012 at 9:43am | IP Logged | |||||
No worries! They even have explanations for difficult kanji! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| t123 Diglot Senior Member South Africa https://github.com/t Joined 5612 days ago 139 posts - 226 votes Speaks: English*, Afrikaans | Message 8 of 9 22 June 2012 at 9:56am | IP Logged | |||||
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Japanese folk tales
These have a kanji version, a kana only version as well as explanations through the text. http://rtkwiki.koohii.com/wiki/Audiobooks A list of audio books, many with parallel texts. 4 persons have voted this message useful |
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