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The Genki books, and a follow-up? - zwarte_kat - 2007-04-20
This is my first post, so hi everybody!
First of all this website is really amazing, an excellent study aid!
Secondly, I was wondering if anybody had comments on using the Genki books. I read the JFE topic and it was mentioned there, but not in a detailed way. I myself have the first book and I like it. Before I was studying the Japanese for busy people series (up to halfway book 3), but it sucked and i forgot a lot that was in it, since a took a (too long) learning break. Also i usually skipped the vocabulary of that book for some reason that i cannot remember (because it's a stupid thing to do). I don't want to use use those books again to relearn everything. So I checked out other stuff, and bought Genki 1, which is too easy for me except for the vocabs, but a good way to brush up the basics. Comments about those books anybody?
Thirdly, the main reason that I'm interested in the Genki books is that they seem to have an intermediate follow-up: An Integrated approach to Intermediate Japanese
http://www.thejapanshop.com/product.php?productid=16239&cat=256&bestseller=Y
Does anybody know or has used this book, I looked inside it when I was at Kinokuniya and it looked fairly advanced. Is it a follow up to Genki 2?
Cheers
The Genki books, and a follow-up? - synewave - 2007-04-20
Hi,
zwarte_kat Wrote:First of all this website is really amazing, an excellent study aid!Definitely!
Did you see this thread on textbooks? Has some info on the books you are interested in.
I've got 'An Integrated Approach' and quite like it, as far as textbooks go.
Cheers,
The Genki books, and a follow-up? - zwarte_kat - 2007-04-20
Thanks Synewave!
That topic pretty much answered my questions in tenfold. Sorry that I didn't took a better look at the forum topics.
To make up for my mistake, here's a little tip for mac users:
http://www.arizona-software.ch/applications/provoc/en/
This application, provoc, has been mentioned before, but it hasn't been mentioned that all the vocab from the genki books is now available as provoc lists. There's some kanji stuff too. I think you can export the words as a text file, so if anybody is interested to use that list for other purposes (on Windows pcs for example), just let me know.