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| sei Diglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 5945 days ago 178 posts - 191 votes  Speaks: Portuguese*, English Studies: German, Japanese | Message 25 of 55 29 December 2009 at 3:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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How are you liking Assimil Japanese? Which edition do you have? It's written in Kana and Kanji right?
Since I am using Assimil German (1958) I was wondering how the Japanese one was like. Also, you mentioned finishing both book 1 and 2 in 4 months? How many lessons are there in each? Most people, for an average of 100 lessons, have a goal of 5 or 6 months, and you're also only doing a lesson a day, right? I was wondering what your plan was and what goals you have from using it. Sorry for all the questions. ^_^ Just very curious. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| sabotai Senior Member United States Joined 5886 days ago 391 posts - 489 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, French | Message 26 of 55 31 December 2009 at 3:58am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm liking the Assimil Japanese course so far. Yes, it's Kanji and Kana, not just kana, and they have the furigana above the Kanji as well. It also has romanji written directly under the Japanese, which I do not like. It'd be fine if it was somewhere else instead of directly under the Japanese. They do eventually move it, but not until near the end. The edition I have is, I think, the newest one. "Japanese With Ease".
There's 99 lessons (49 in 1, 50 in 2), and I'm doing 1 lesson a day, but I'm also skipping the grammar lessons (I'll read them, but also do the next lesson). So it's more like 85 lessons. With doing the active phase, that would be about 125 days or a little over 4 months. My only real goal is to be well on my way to an "Intermediate" level with my Japanese after finishing the Assimil course. Tuesday, December 29, 2009 Japanesepod101 - Newbie Season 3, Episodes 4-6 - 45 minutes Assimil - reviewed lesson 2, studied lesson 3 - 25 minutes Japanese in Mangaland - chapter 27 - 20 minutes Total Time: 90 minutes Wednesday, December 30, 2009 Japanesepod101 - Newbie Season 3, Episodes 7-9 - 45 minutes Assimil - reviewed lesson 3, studied lesson 4 - 25 minutes Japanese in Mangaland - chapters 28, 29 and 30 - 60 minutes Finished the first book in the Mangaland series. Did it a bit quickly, but I was only really paying attention to the "theory" part of it, not so much the vocab. With the vocab tables in the book, I'll use them as I go through Japanese Sentence Patterns and make my own sentences in order to learn some of the vocab later. Total Time: 130 minutes 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| sei Diglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 5945 days ago 178 posts - 191 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English Studies: German, Japanese | Message 27 of 55 31 December 2009 at 5:26am | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for the answers. =) I was considering getting it, since I'm liking Assimil German without toil a lot, but I think I have my hands full with Japanese for Everyone for now. ^^
Good luck with your studies! I'm following your log actively and hope to see you improve every day! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| sabotai Senior Member United States Joined 5886 days ago 391 posts - 489 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, French | Message 28 of 55 31 December 2009 at 7:06pm | IP Logged | ||
Danke! Ich lese auch deine log. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| sabotai Senior Member United States Joined 5886 days ago 391 posts - 489 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, French | Message 29 of 55 02 January 2010 at 8:28am | IP Logged | ||
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Quick update.
Took most of New Year's Eve off, just doing the Japanese Assimil lesson 5. Meant to do a lot today, but I got a rare call from my social life (went to a friend's house to watch the Winter Classic). Got home, did Assimil Japanese Lesson 6 and Assimil French lesson 1 (French officially started!). But then that was it because I got a massive migraine while doing the Assimil lessons (felt it coming on on the drive home) which means I stopped doing everything, turned all of the lights off, downed a few Excedrin Migraine and just waited it out. I get some pretty bad migraines from time to time. Anyway, tomorrow I plan to get back on track. At least I was able to get the Assimil lessons done today. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| sabotai Senior Member United States Joined 5886 days ago 391 posts - 489 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, French | Message 30 of 55 03 January 2010 at 9:05am | IP Logged | ||
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Saturday, January 2, 2009
Japanesepod101 - Newbie Season 3 Episodes 10-12 Assimil Japanese - Rev. lessons 1 and 6, Studied lesson 8 Japanese Sentence Patterns - Pattern 14 and 15 - putting the two adjective forms into the past (14) and past negative (15. Assimil French - Rev. lesson 1 and studied lesson 2 Not sure on time, but probably 2-3 hours. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| sabotai Senior Member United States Joined 5886 days ago 391 posts - 489 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, French | Message 31 of 55 05 January 2010 at 8:47am | IP Logged | ||
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Sunday, January 3, 2009
Japanesepod101 - Newbie Season 3, Episodes 13 and 14 Assimil Japanese - rev L2 and 8, Studied lesson 9 Assimil French - rev lesson 2, studied lesson 3 Monday, January 4, 2009 Japanesepod101 - Newbie Season 3, Episodes 15-17 Assimil Japanese - rev L3 and 9, studied lesson 10 Japanese Sentence Patterns - Pattern 16 - using で to mean "and". Assimil French - rev L3, studied lesson 4 TY Improve Your German - Sorta started over. Going to give the exercises in the book a try. Listened to the first dialogue and did exercises 1 and 2. Didn't have a problem with them but I have listened to and read this dialogue a bunch of times already. Exercise 3 was a "fill in the prepositions" exercise (got 5 out of 7), and the 4th exercises was a matching exercises - match the question to the answer (got all of them). Then it tells you to answer the questions for yourself. Here's mine. Wie heißen Sie, bitte? A: Mein name ist Jason. Kommen Sie denn aus Kanada? A: Nein, Ich komme aus Amerika. Und wo sind Sie geboren? A: Ich bin in New Jersey, USA geboren. Sind Sie verheiratet? A: Nein, ich bin nicht verairatet. Haben Sie Kinder? A: Nein, aber ich habe eine Nichte. Und sind Sie berufstätig? A: Ja, ich arbeite mit mein Vater. Wie lange lernen Sie Deutsch? A: Seit ain paar Jahren. Edited by sabotai on 05 January 2010 at 8:48am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| sabotai Senior Member United States Joined 5886 days ago 391 posts - 489 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, French | Message 32 of 55 06 January 2010 at 8:37am | IP Logged | ||
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Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Japanesepod101 - Newbie Season 3, Episodes 18-20 Assimil Japanese - Lesson 11 (rev 4 and 10) Japanese Sentence Patterns - 17 (combining adjectives) and 18 (using the particle し with adjectives) Assimil French - Lesson 5 (rev 4) TY Improve Your German - Chapter 1, Aufnahme 2 (übung 5-8) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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