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The good and bad of Teach Yourself
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Iversen
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Message 9 of 37

06 May 2011 at 11:08am | IP Logged

Arekkusu wrote:

You know, TY -- like all other methods -- do offer you many words you may never use. How often do you use the words post office, or bridge?

Very often, I guess - especially if I'am travelling.
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06 May 2011 at 6:11pm | IP Logged

Owning a music studio makes you immune to annoying sounds or annoying repetitiveness.
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07 May 2011 at 3:52am | IP Logged

szastprast wrote:

As to 'post office', I use it every day.

Fair enough, our needs are different. I know no one has mentioned post office to me in over a month
because I've been paying attention to the word. The last time I visited a post office while travelling was in
1991. Besides, if you know "place", "send" and "letter", you can explain post office.

szastprast wrote:

I had a look at Japanese Teach Yourself book. I didn't particularly like it. Romaji only.

TY is what got me started while I still wasn't comfortable with hiragana. It got me speaking a lot
earlier.
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Message 14 of 37

07 May 2011 at 5:22pm | IP Logged

szastprast wrote:

Arekkusu wrote:

TY is what got me started while I still wasn't comfortable with
hiragana. It got me speaking a lot
earlier.

So you started speaking by reading dialogues in romaji? Not by repeating after the recording?

That's correct.
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Message 16 of 37

08 May 2011 at 4:21pm | IP Logged

szastprast wrote:

Arekkusu wrote:

szastprast wrote:

Arekkusu wrote:

TY is what got me
started while I still wasn't comfortable with
hiragana. It got me speaking a lot
earlier.

So you started speaking by reading dialogues in romaji? Not by repeating after the recording?

That's correct.

That's interesting. And you didn't listen, either?

No. I already had a pretty good idea about
Japanese pronunciation, so I didn't use the recording. It's a lot faster to go through TY without the
recordings anyway.

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