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| shadowzoid Groupie United States Joined 5686 days ago 76 posts - 85 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian | Message 1 of 5 20 September 2011 at 10:27pm | IP Logged |
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I'm preparing for a Japanese placement exam. I want to get into Japanese 2 in my school,
so I need to learn college-lever Japanese I in 1 semester. What textbooks and course of study would you recommend? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| AndyMeg Diglot Groupie Colombia Joined 4929 days ago 48 posts - 62 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 2 of 5 22 September 2011 at 1:13am | IP Logged |
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These are some material I am using right now and I have found them to be really good:
- Japanese the Manga Way - Genki I and II (there are also audios and workbooks) - Nihongo Notes - Tae Kim´s grammar (This is a free resource. You can find it here: http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar) - Let´s Learn Kanji I am experimenting with different materials and methods and I am writting a log in this forum about my japanese adventure. You could read it if you want. You could also read other japanese´s logs from different members of this forum. It could give you some ideas. Edited by AndyMeg on 22 September 2011 at 1:18am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Hampie Diglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 6662 days ago 625 posts - 1009 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Latin, German, Mandarin | Message 3 of 5 22 September 2011 at 1:20am | IP Logged |
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Genki are quite boring and has, sadly, not enough text to give a lot of exercises, however, it’s used among many,
many schools and colleges and it does indeed incorporate 漢字 from chapter 4 and forward. There it audio, a work book, a lot of exercises (though many of them are ‹class room only›) and a (very expensive) answer key. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| w1n73rmu7e Newbie United States Joined 5943 days ago 31 posts - 46 votes | Message 4 of 5 24 September 2011 at 4:15am | IP Logged |
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Why don't you find out what book is used in Japanese I at your school and use that? There were several students who had taken years of Japanese in high school, yet placed out of only 1 or 2 semester of Japanese at my university because they simply studied different material. When they got to the 2nd or 3rd year of Japanese, they found it very easy because they'd already covered the material.
A college placement exam is essentially the final exam for that class. So if you follow the curriculum of that class, you will have the greatest chance of success in passing the exam. Edited by w1n73rmu7e on 24 September 2011 at 4:16am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| LatinoBoy84 Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5578 days ago 443 posts - 603 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish*, French Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Latvian | Message 5 of 5 24 September 2011 at 5:27am | IP Logged |
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Assimil Japanese with Ease. The series covers at least as much as Genki I and II.
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