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| Desertbandit Groupie Netherlands Joined 5106 days ago 80 posts - 104 votes  Speaks: Arabic (Iraqi)* | Message 1 of 8 04 February 2011 at 11:08pm | IP Logged |
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I have allot of time when I commute to school, and I try to use that comuting time for language learning , I managed to fill the for a bit.
But what I want is a simple beginner Japanese Book (or something a like) that only requests me to read and comprehend what is written, without any help of any external help like CDs/Audio or something a like and I want it a bit cheap. It doesn't have to be super effective or help me to reach fluency, cause I already use good methods for that at home , I just want something simple to give that extra boost and to solidify the basics. I thank you for your time and attention. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Sandman Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5414 days ago 168 posts - 389 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Japanese | Message 2 of 8 05 February 2011 at 3:50am | IP Logged |
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There's someone that posted this link on another thread somewhere:
http://english.franklang.ru/ (click on the "Japanese" language link to get to the file) Basically it's a bunch of easy Japanese folktales with each sentence presented one at a time normally and then with full kana/romaji/translations included within the text itself as you go along. Looked kind of interesting to me, although I've only gone a bit through the first story so far. Price = Free. Can download it as a .doc file and print it out. Edited by Sandman on 05 February 2011 at 3:53am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Desertbandit Groupie Netherlands Joined 5106 days ago 80 posts - 104 votes Speaks: Arabic (Iraqi)* | Message 3 of 8 05 February 2011 at 9:52pm | IP Logged |
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Wow thank you thank you so much .
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| Desertbandit Groupie Netherlands Joined 5106 days ago 80 posts - 104 votes Speaks: Arabic (Iraqi)* | Message 4 of 8 08 February 2011 at 11:21pm | IP Logged |
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Anyone got some other interesting reccomondation ?
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| t123 Diglot Senior Member South Africa https://github.com/t Joined 5617 days ago 139 posts - 226 votes Speaks: English*, Afrikaans | Message 5 of 8 08 February 2011 at 11:49pm | IP Logged |
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Depends on how you define simple, have you looked here?
http://rtkwiki.koohii.com/wiki/Audiobooks 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Desertbandit Groupie Netherlands Joined 5106 days ago 80 posts - 104 votes Speaks: Arabic (Iraqi)* | Message 6 of 8 09 February 2011 at 2:33pm | IP Logged |
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With simple I mean beginners level and not to much intermediate terms and something you can easaily read trough .
Oh by the way I do not mean a novel or a story in particular with the word book, I actually mean study books . You know like some kind of simple guide to Japanese grammar FOR example that you can get for 5 bucks. Edited by Desertbandit on 09 February 2011 at 2:34pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5184 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi | Message 7 of 8 10 February 2011 at 12:14pm | IP Logged |
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Well, there is Tae Kim guide to Japanese grammar available online, and also in pdf form
so you can maybe download and print. As for book, that would be good just to visit your local library and see what they have available. As for a beginner maybe some books teaching kana, or something. There are some nice ones (at least we have it in Poland, in Western countries you should have it more than us). Or better some kanji learning book. I recommend one written by some person with Russian sounding name. You can just choose a book that suits you. Look how they are written etc. Don't buy a kanji dictionary! But something that teaches you things like: "日 this character resembles sun, so the meaning is sun". That will explain you why the characters look like they do. Kanji dictionary is too hard for beginners. But as for Helsig, well i did not like it. I liked the "no readings" approach, but some characters have strange meanings associated with them. Moreover you will be frustrated if you are not native English speaker (do you know what escutcheon, or dachshund is?), and he uses not reliable etymologies (examples about that one character resembles a computer! ancient Chinese did not had computers!). Maybe it's simply because I did already know meaning of the most characters there when reading it. Well, etymologies vary. We don't know what ancient Chinese meant when they created the characters. For example character for 女 woman, most people think it is a picture of a woman, but I read on some other dictionary that it was actually man originally. Just choose one that suits you. They usually don't have recordings (would be strange if they did). Edited by clumsy on 10 February 2011 at 12:54pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Desertbandit Groupie Netherlands Joined 5106 days ago 80 posts - 104 votes Speaks: Arabic (Iraqi)* | Message 8 of 8 12 February 2011 at 5:48pm | IP Logged |
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I see thank you for your advice.
May ask one question of you all here? Does anyone know some kind of book that improves vocalubary ? for a beginner ofcourse or you know something that suplements your main studies even if its by a bit . (Frank Ilya method is great btw I love it) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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