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"the Alfonso Japanese language series, an audio-lingual approach" - gfb345 - 2010-05-12
I recently read taijuando's interview of Heisig and the following sentence caught my eye:
Quote:Heisig began by reading and examining the Alfonso Japanese language series, an audio-lingual approach that emphasizes spoken language before concentrating on the written language.Does anyone have more info on this Alfonso "audio-lingual" series? I have only been able to find books on Japanese by Anthony Alfonso, but nothing with audio.
TIA!
~K
"the Alfonso Japanese language series, an audio-lingual approach" - nest0r - 2010-05-12
This is all I can find: http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1465898
"the Alfonso Japanese language series, an audio-lingual approach" - gfb345 - 2010-05-12
nest0r Wrote:This is all I can find: http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1465898Thanks. It looks pretty obscure, but maybe it was more popular back in the 70s.
"the Alfonso Japanese language series, an audio-lingual approach" - Hashiriya - 2010-05-12
I wonder what studying Japanese was like in the 70s-80s. I wonder what people did to become "fluent" in the language. I somehow imagine someone sitting at a table with large Aviator style glasses writing every Kanji 1000 times each.
"the Alfonso Japanese language series, an audio-lingual approach" - mullr - 2010-05-13
Candle flickering on the table, monocle dangling from his belt...
Katakana's a bitch when your quill pen goes blotchy.
"the Alfonso Japanese language series, an audio-lingual approach" - Katsuo - 2010-05-13
252 Japanese Langauge Books includes information about several texts by Alfonso. I have "Japanese Language Patterns Nihongoban vols 1 & 2", for which there is a matching set of 74 one-hour cassettes (I don't have the cassettes).
"the Alfonso Japanese language series, an audio-lingual approach" - Hashiriya - 2010-05-13
mullr Wrote:Candle flickering on the table, monocle dangling from his belt...lol actually I kinda picture the guy looking like the guy at 3:15 of this video lmao:
Katakana's a bitch when your quill pen goes blotchy.
"the Alfonso Japanese language series, an audio-lingual approach" - Irixmark - 2010-05-29
Don't touch Alfonso. We used it waaaay back then in my undergraduate Japanese class, not the 1970s but the late 1990s. I cannot remember a single thing from it, other than the bottom line: I took two years of Japanese and couldn't produce a single sentence that didn't sound ridiculously wooden, and I understood absolutely nothing when I went to Japan for the first time, and I got completely turned off learning Japanese for over ten years.
It ought be kept in library storage in case someone re-invents this as a new "theory" of language learning, so that the person in question can be whacked over the head with it.