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| Lucky Charms Diglot Senior Member Japan lapacifica.net Joined 6950 days ago 752 posts - 1711 votes  Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: German, Spanish | Message 17 of 20 23 November 2010 at 7:17am | IP Logged | |||||
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The approach of the two courses is completely different.
Living Language takes the standard textbook approach of a grammar point + vocab list each lesson, and a dialogue to illustrate the grammar and vocab. Assimil tries to minimize the technical stuff and memorization, so you just listen to the lesson while referring to the English translation until you find you can understand the recording on its own. They're both excellent for Japanese, but since you say you're burnt out on intensive learning, and are mainly interested in conversational proficiency, I'd highly recommend Assimil. It's designed for conversation, and it's designed to be relatively effortless. You can spend just 15 minutes a day on it without any outside work (memorizing vocab lists, etc.) Japanesepod101.com might be a fun tool to use in conjunction with that - they're also conversation-focused, and teach a lot of slangy stuff, etc. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| MichaelM204351 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5445 days ago 151 posts - 173 votes Speaks: English*, Biblical Hebrew Studies: Modern Hebrew, German, Spanish | Message 18 of 20 21 April 2011 at 3:24am | IP Logged | |||||
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How many lessons are in the Japanese courses?
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 budonoseito Pro Member United States budobeyondtechnRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5806 days ago 261 posts - 344 votes Studies: French, Japanese Personal Language Map | Message 19 of 20 21 April 2011 at 4:21am | IP Logged | |||||
There are 49 lessons in Japanese with Ease. The Advanced is bigger but I don't know the lesson count off hand. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| jazzboy.bebop Senior Member Norway norwegianthroughnove Joined 5419 days ago 439 posts - 800 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Norwegian | Message 20 of 20 21 April 2011 at 3:23pm | IP Logged | |||||
I don't know why, but Japanese With Ease is split into two volumes rather than the second book being a true advanced level book like the "Using X" series. The two volumes bring you to the same sort of level in the language as would a normal one volume With Ease book in another language giving a total of 99 lessons. It seems a bit odd to me that Assimil did this as you effectively need to pay twice as much to get the same amount of content as you would in their normal With Ease courses. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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