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| Diotem Newbie Canada Joined 5677 days ago 7 posts - 7 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 9 of 24 12 December 2009 at 8:07am | IP Logged | ||
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I'll give the second recommendation for "Japanese for Everyone."
A lot of the book is geared towards classroom settings, but at the same time, it's pretty much the best you can get for self study. Well written, plenty of exercises with answer key. Expect to have a good foundation in Japanese grammar by the end of it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| LuxEtVeritas Diglot Groupie United States Joined 5705 days ago 50 posts - 65 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, German, Italian | Message 10 of 24 23 December 2009 at 8:26am | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks guys! I've been busy so I haven't had much time to add to the list, but I shall do
so now. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| BartoG Diglot Senior Member United States confession Joined 5447 days ago 292 posts - 818 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Italian, Spanish, Latin, Uzbek | Message 11 of 24 26 December 2009 at 4:53am | IP Logged | ||
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I'll add a second for the Cambridge Latin course for a guided introduction to Latin. If you want an immersive course, though, Lingva Latina is the place to start.
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| Luai_lashire Diglot Senior Member United States luai-lashire.deviant Joined 5828 days ago 384 posts - 560 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto Studies: Japanese, French | Message 12 of 24 26 December 2009 at 11:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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Genki 1 & 2 are another set of popular Japanese textbooks. I used Genki 1 in a class,
and I found it to be excellent. I got Genki 2 for self-study purposes, and it's not ideal but it still has a lot of good grammar explanations and many exercises (for those of us who benefit from such things). You'll want the accompanying audio tapes and workbook; they come separately. For Esperanto, there's a good textbook available both in print and online, called "The Esperanto Teacher", which is interesting because it avoids using grammatical terms such as "verb" and "participle". This makes it ideal for people who think they can't learn a language because they know nothing about languages. Even for everyone else, the explanations are clear and concise. Then of course for websites, there's Lernu.net, which has a wide variety of courses and games as well as an online dictionary and a library of many Esperanto books. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| sei Diglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 5941 days ago 178 posts - 191 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English Studies: German, Japanese | Message 13 of 24 28 December 2009 at 5:21am | IP Logged | ||
I'm not sure if we are discussing the same book. Aren't you referring to Minna no Nihongo (みんなの日本語)? I say this because Japanese for Everyone is very self-study oriented. It has the random exercise which says for you to practice saying it with a classmate, but these are few and can be easily done without a colleague. Which is why I didn't recommend Genki for example, as I have tried it for self-study and found it had many group exercises and they were hard to adapt for doing alone. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| LuxEtVeritas Diglot Groupie United States Joined 5705 days ago 50 posts - 65 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, German, Italian | Message 14 of 24 28 December 2009 at 9:16am | IP Logged | ||
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Unfortunately there is a problem with javascript (I guess? I am no computer whiz :) ) so
I can't edit the original list, but I will do so tomorrow. Great suggestions so far! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| MmeFleiss Diglot Groupie United States Joined 5982 days ago 58 posts - 72 votes Speaks: English*, Tagalog Studies: Japanese, French, Spanish | Message 15 of 24 29 December 2009 at 5:27am | IP Logged | ||
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Would Madrigal's Magic Key to Spanish count as a textbook? I think it's definitely a relatively painless way to learn verb conjugation. All the vocab she points out using cognates doesn't hurt either. It makes me wish the French and German ones are still in print.
French in Action would definitely make my list, too. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Fat-tony Nonaglot Senior Member United Kingdom jiahubooks.co.uk Joined 6140 days ago 288 posts - 441 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Russian, Esperanto, Thai, Laotian, Urdu, Swedish, French Studies: Mandarin, Indonesian, Arabic (Written), Armenian, Pali, Burmese | Message 16 of 24 29 December 2009 at 11:37am | IP Logged | ||
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Hindi/Urdu - The Teach Yourself books for both of these languages are very good. The
"Colloquial" equivalents are sub-standard. Thai - It's difficult for me to say because I've learnt Thai more by immersion then textbooks but Thai for Beginners, Thai for Intermediate Learners and Thai for Advanced Readers by Benjawan Poomsan Becker are probably the best around. They're quite cheap in Thailand. Malay/Indonesian - Unfortunately I would have to recommend getting both the Teach Yourself and Colloquial packs for these languages. The TY have much more vocab and recordings while the grammatical explanations are better in the Colloquial books. I've heard that Assimil and Linguaphone do very good Indonesian courses but I haven't used them. Mandarin - the old "Colloquial Chinese" by Ping-Cheng T'ung and David E. Pollard together with the character text. For South-East Asia the best place to start is The centre for South-East Asian Studies at the University of Illinois. Edited by Fat-tony on 29 December 2009 at 11:39am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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