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read real japanese essays - IceCream - 2009-06-12
does anyone else have this book? its an intermediate level reading book with essays by Haruki Murakami, Junko Sakai, Mitsuyo Kakuta, Banana Yoshimoto, Kou Machida, Yoko Ogawa, Keiichiro Hirano, and Hido Levy. It comes with an audio cd so i thought it might be good to break down and srs...
in order to do this, im going to need to find a way to split audio files. can anyone reccomend me a free program to do this that doesnt take up much system resources (my computer is very crashy) and is very straightforward to use (i cant be bothered to take days learning to use a program instead of studying)
is this too illegal for here? Anyway, if anyones interested, let me know what youd like from it, like, if you want the parallell text they provide, or whether just keywords would be ok, or any other suggestions...
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coolcool, think i finally worked out how to do it all... audacity is great, so easy to use, thanks!
so, the googledoc is here: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key= … &hl=en
if theres any problems with it please let me know, cos i haven't done this before...
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Ok. Essay 5: Machida Kou - However he writes, a creep is still a creep, is now complete. The link for the chopped up sounds is: http://rapidshare.com/files/245176928/machida_kou.rar
I really really recommend this chapter. Not only is Machida's writing really funny and entertaining, it's also incredibly useful in terms of grammar and style of language. As is written on the introduction page in the book, it's the type of essay that gets funnier and funnier on subsequent readings. Please note that the "sentence ending method" is obv oversimplified for humour.
Its worth reading if only to hear the sex pistols lyrics in polite japanese lol
If anyone's read anything else by Machida, i'd love to hear about it... I really like this guy's style.
Let me know if there's any mistakes
read real japanese essays - Shingo - 2009-06-12
Audacity is a free and has many capabilities. Search in google.
read real japanese essays - captal - 2009-06-12
Nothing illegal about what you want to do- it's your CD. I have the companion of that book- Read Real Japanese Fiction (or something close to that title)- I really like it though both volumes are a little pricey (2600 yen I think).
I second Audacity- give it a shot.
read real japanese essays - blackmacros - 2009-06-12
I have both Read Real Japanese Essays and Read Real Japanese Fiction, and I think they're both fantastic.
I've never used Audacity, but if you're on a Mac you can download Audio Hijack Pro which captures audio from any source on your computer (its free from their website, you only need to pay if you want to use it to capture audio longer than 10 minutes in duration, which shouldn't be a problem). I play the audio in itunes, and capture the relative sentence I want, which gets saved as an mp3 by Audio Hijack, and then I put that mp3 in my SRS.
Again, I've never used Audacity so I don't know which way would be easier.
read real japanese essays - haplology - 2009-06-12
I like the idea. I have the book, but haven't gone through much more than the beginning of the Murakami essay - it's a bit beyond me still in speed and vocabulary, although SRS'ing it is a good idea. It's probably two or three levels above me, but with enough repetition, I could probably get there.
I've also used the Shadowing book from White Rabbit - pretty good way to speed up your spoken Japanese and pronunciation when you don't have anyone to talk Japanese with.
read real japanese essays - welldone101 - 2009-06-12
haplology Wrote:[...]Which one is that? Is the name just "shadowing"?
I've also used the Shadowing book from White Rabbit - pretty good way to speed up your spoken Japanese and pronunciation when you don't have anyone to talk Japanese with.
read real japanese essays - zazen666 - 2009-06-12
I have the book. its sweet. good high level grammar, good explanations, some non RTK kanji (1 or 3) and cd is high quality.
I've put quite a few sentences in anki. the book is highly reccomended if you are at that level.
read real japanese essays - Nukemarine - 2009-06-13
Although I didn't finish it, I tried turning the "Japanese Listening Advanced" scripts into a subtitle file then use that with subs2srs to make flashcards. I was using AviSynth 2.5
Seems the easiest route, though it's still time consuming.
read real japanese essays - haplology - 2009-06-13
https://www.whiterabbitpress.com/product.php?productid=16500
Skip the annoying intro and just preview the various lessons. At first, I found myself stumbling with the speed of Unit 1. Now I'm stumbling with the speed of Unit 3 (which is actually a big improvement).
Has anyone tried MP3 vocab lists? I don't really listen to music that much when I'm working on the computer, and JapanesePod lessons are sometimes too much when I need to be mostly concentrating on other stuff - but I've thought about running audio vocab in the background. Really need to work on my vocabulary.
read real japanese essays - ahibba - 2009-06-13
Try this one:
http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=3062
I've used it with Breaking Into Japanese Literature. I recommend it..
haplology Wrote:Has anyone tried MP3 vocab lists? I don't really listen to music that much when I'm working on the computer, and JapanesePod lessons are sometimes too much when I need to be mostly concentrating on other stuff - but I've thought about running audio vocab in the background. Really need to work on my vocabulary.You can use VocabuLearn Japanese 3 CDs.
read real japanese essays - blackmacros - 2009-06-13
IceCream Wrote:if anyone wants to contribute, either on this or maybe by doing the read real japanese stories, feel free to pick a chapter and add to the spreadsheet, just add a new page... (i think?!) ive made it open, but, again, any problems, let me know. I'l probably just do whatever order interests me...Once my exams are finished (2 days) I might start doing the real japanese stories. I've been intending to devote some serious attention to it for a while now. I may put this off for a week or two until I finish the first KO2001 book, though.
read real japanese essays - Delina - 2009-06-19
I really like Breaking Into Japanese Literature. I got it when it was way over my head, but thanks to the way it's set up I could still understand the story in Japanese. I'm probably at the level now where I could get a lot more out of it. I'm going to go for SRSing and shadowing with Read Real Japanese first (because they are read by a woman) but Breaking Into Japanese Literature should be equally valuable (maybe more so if you are a guy who would prefer to shadow guys).
Breaking Into Japanese Literature also has audio tracks for all the stories available for free download from the author's web site, so it's like having the CD except they are already MP3's. Here's the site for download:
http://www.speaking-japanese.com/breaking/
read real japanese essays - radical_tyro - 2009-06-19
IceCream Wrote:If anyone can help me out with the sound though, i'd reallllllly appreciate it. I've put the sound pieces in the .media folder, and they're all named as they were on the spreadsheet. But I don't know how to make them play instead of just writing the name of the track???Try putting [sound:blah.mp3] in the anki field and then run Tools > Advanced > Check Media Database.... Make sure you have a backup of your files though because I think Anki will rename them to something like 3d75a65d785853e257a29b75ff278c6f.mp3 :p
Please Help!!!!!
read real japanese essays - Miaow - 2010-09-30
Hi, I'm interested in this book "Reading Real Japanese-Essays" and its companion "Stories" book. Though I would like to know a bit about the essays and stories - could someone please post a brief (like 1-2 sentences) synopsis of each essay and story? I've done some googling but have found no info.
Thanks in advance!
read real japanese essays - Aijin - 2010-09-30
Reading Real Japanese - Essays
Haruki Murakami - Essay on the distinction between harmful and innocent lies, and his personal experiences on lying.
Junko Sakai - Essay on how young people, specifically on trains and airplanes, are oblivious to everyone but themself, and modern trends amongst Japanese youth.
Mitsuyo Kakuta - Essay on why the author hates the cooking of men (it's about as unintelligent as my synopsis makes it sound
)Banana Yoshimoto - Essay on beauty, specifically an anecdote of when she was at a florist.
Kou Machida - Essay on how "you are what you write" and how someone's personality is revealed by their writing, and that by writing in polite speech even obscene things will sound polite. It's written in a sarcastically serious manner.
*just ran out of time and will finish synopsis later*
read real japanese essays - vileru - 2010-09-30
Miaow Wrote:Hi, I'm interested in this book "Reading Real Japanese-Essays" and its companion "Stories" book. Though I would like to know a bit about the essays and stories - could someone please post a brief (like 1-2 sentences) synopsis of each essay and story? I've done some googling but have found no info.I own both books, but I've only read the first story of the "Stories" book and the first essay of the "Essays" book.
Thanks in advance!
Spoiler Alert.
Anyway, the first story is about someone whose neighbor is a bear. They go on a trip to a nearby river together. It's hilarious and utterly bizarre.
In contrast, the first essay is somber and ends with a sting. It's a narrative essay about a girl who leaves her exciting boyfriend to marry a guy with a good job. She then becomes unsatisfied with a boring marriage. She later hears about her old boyfriend's whereabouts, and she longs to join him. The essay ends with the narrator telling the girl she made a stupid decision.
read real japanese essays - pm215 - 2010-10-01
vileru Wrote:In contrast, the first essay is somber and ends with a sting. It's a narrative essay about a girl who leaves her exciting boyfriend to marry a guy with a good job.I think that's the old edition of the book, isn't it? They put together a different set of essays for the new edition, which has the essays Aijin lists, starting with the Murakami.
read real japanese essays - vileru - 2010-10-01
pm215 Wrote:Ah, you're right! I thought the newer edition was just the same thing, but just with an audio CD and better formatting. Clearly, I'm wrong. The first essay in my edition is written by Mori Youko (森瑤子). At least it's reassuring to know that I can safely buy the new edition since it contains a completely different set of essays (although, Murakami and Yoshimoto appear again).vileru Wrote:In contrast, the first essay is somber and ends with a sting. It's a narrative essay about a girl who leaves her exciting boyfriend to marry a guy with a good job.I think that's the old edition of the book, isn't it? They put together a different set of essays for the new edition, which has the essays Aijin lists, starting with the Murakami.
read real japanese essays - jorrebenst - 2011-04-05
I was just wondering if the spreadsheet is still available? And are any of the other essays, or fiction stories done too?
Thanks,
Jorre
read real japanese essays - IceCream - 2011-05-21
sorry, i didn't see someone had replied to this thread back in April...
anyway, yeah, it's still available. Weird, the link must have changed though... the new link is:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aps2LfnCvJlecmpwTVNpUDJWZ0ZDTnd4RW9vb0xGMVE&hl=en_US
read real japanese essays - elhnad - 2014-12-08
does anybody have the read real japanese fiction/essays mp3s and also the breaking into japanese literature mp3s? the websites are down