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| Dragonsheep Groupie United States Joined 5298 days ago 46 posts - 63 votes  Studies: Tagalog, English* Studies: Japanese, Latin | Message 1 of 4 07 July 2010 at 2:52am | IP Logged |
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How do both levels of Genki compare to both levels of Japanese Assimil? I'm on the home stretch of Assimil and am considering my options. Is Genki a good choice after Assimil (assuming I used time to really Assimilate the language)?
If not Genki, then what are my other options for continuation? (I've finished RTK if it helps.) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 budonoseito Pro Member United States budobeyondtechnRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5833 days ago 261 posts - 344 votes Studies: French, Japanese Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 4 07 July 2010 at 4:02am | IP Logged |
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It sounds like you are ready for native material. I would start with 'Read Real Japanese
Fiction: Short Stories by Contemporary Writers' $16 on Amazon. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| pineappleboom Groupie United States languageloft-ashley. Joined 5281 days ago 66 posts - 76 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, French, Russian | Message 3 of 4 13 July 2010 at 2:18am | IP Logged |
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genki is good, but expensive. It is also REALLY slow, like most textbooks. it also doesnt have very many kanji. I know assimil has a course on just writing japanese but i dont know how many kanji it has. i love assimil, but I haven't used it for japanese. I liked Colloquial Japanese. it is all in kana which is so much better than romaji.
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| Sandman Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5436 days ago 168 posts - 389 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Japanese | Message 4 of 4 13 July 2010 at 9:09am | IP Logged |
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After finishing Assimil you might find Genki not quite challenging enough. You'll already know all the vocabulary from the first years book easily, and probably a lot of the 2nd year vocab as well (I'd have to look it up again, but there's basically only 800 or so new words in each book), so you might spend a lot of your time rehashing things.
It does give pretty decent grammar instructions and there's a lot of grammar based listening content/exercises, but that would be pretty much all you'd be getting it for at this point, and their may be better ways to go about that. If I were you'd I'd step up to some graded reading type material, grab a solid grammar book, and work on that until you're ready to start messing with actual reading materials/audiobooks. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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