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| Belle700 Senior Member United States Joined 5505 days ago 128 posts - 143 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, French | Message 1 of 4 26 November 2012 at 8:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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Has anyone worked their way through FSI Japanese and if so, what did you think of the
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| atama warui Triglot Senior Member Japan Joined 4510 days ago 594 posts - 985 votes Speaks: German*, English, Japanese | Message 2 of 4 27 November 2012 at 3:45am | IP Logged | ||
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I thought the Japanese there was only one e-book, nothing more?
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| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4474 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 3 of 4 02 December 2012 at 11:02pm | IP Logged | ||
There are ten modules, all but the first seemingly with some audio. I've been concentrating on other areas until now, but I may try to start working through it next week. A brief glance suggests that it is very basic though. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4474 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 4 of 4 27 December 2012 at 6:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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I worked through the FAST course (but not the Headstart main course) over the last week
or so. It's written as an intensive 6-week crash-course for someone about to be shipped to Japan (the main course is a more sedate 44-week course). On the plus side it does cover a good many practical subjects (getting around, making phone calls etc.) and it does include a good deal of vocabulary and a decent number of sentence patterns. On the downside it is almost entirely in roomaji (although it does include kana in the vocabulary section and some kanji too). The grammar coverage is almost non-existent. It is a tad dated (well, the English is, and there aren't many pay phones left these days too, I guess the Japanese may be too). Given that it is intended as a 6-week "emergency" course to give you a minimal grounding before you find yourself working in the American Embassy in Japan, the downsides are entirely understandable. If you want to use it as an introduction to Japanese it's not bad. I think it might be more useful as a revision guide after you've got 3-6 months of grammar and vocabulary under your belt. I'll probably go back over it more carefully and SRS the (new) vocabulary and sentence patterns sometime soon. I'll try the main course soon: a quick skim of the first few pages doesn't fill me with too much confidence, but there's audio to listen to too and that's always useful. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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