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Can anyone recommend a good Intermediate Textbook? - leonl - 2012-02-06
As I finish my review of basic Japanese, I find myself looking for an intermediate level textbook. Anyone have suggestions for me. In order to cut off some debate beforehand, I am firmly a textbook/text with an anki deck type of guy, so I'm really not interested in getting a ton of suggestions about AJATT, or imersion or things like that. I'm not trying to be rude, but after playing with a lot of things, I have found textbooks work well for me.
Can anyone recommend a good Intermediate Textbook? - Zgarbas - 2012-02-06
The Kanzen master series?
And Dictionary of Intermediate Grammar. Not really a textbook, but the best book for grammar.
Can anyone recommend a good Intermediate Textbook? - leonl - 2012-02-06
Thanks!
I bought a Kanzen master 2 kyuu grammar book a year ago, thinking I could make such a huge jump coming straight off of second year Japanese, big mistake. Does anyone know anything about the N3 book
Can anyone recommend a good Intermediate Textbook? - nohika - 2012-02-06
From what I've been told the N3 book is pretty good, but best paired with something like the Dictionaries of grammar since the explanations tend to be pretty sparse.
That's what I plan to do, anyways. Currently doing Japanese the manga way, plan to do N3 as a review, and then start on N2 grammar.
Can anyone recommend a good Intermediate Textbook? - usis35 - 2012-02-06
An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese
http://ij.japantimes.co.jp/en/
An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese - Review?
http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=2167
Can anyone recommend a good Intermediate Textbook? - Inny Jan - 2012-02-06
What about:
- Read Real Japanese
- Do{B,I,A}JG
- Kanji in Kontext
You could opt for KO but you may find grammar of sentences there to easy (good for vocabulary build up though).
Note: There seems to be a shortage in intermediate level books - my suggestions are what I did/do/will do alongside Minna no Nihongo.
Can anyone recommend a good Intermediate Textbook? - mlorenz - 2012-02-06
usis35 Wrote:An Integrated Approach to Intermediate JapaneseAs a textbook guy myself, strongly seconded. I found this book to be exactly what I needed after completing RTK 1; I tried the Core 6000 deck but found that to be a bit much at this stage (and not as interesting as the textbook, either).
http://ij.japantimes.co.jp/en/
Can anyone recommend a good Intermediate Textbook? - Shinichirou - 2012-02-06
The Nihongo Chukyu J301 and the Intermediate Japanese Reading Skill Builder by ALC are good reads I think. Here is some other ALC stuff if you are interested...
http://www.alc-pubrights.com/?page_id=40
Can anyone recommend a good Intermediate Textbook? - rachels - 2012-02-06
I tried 'An integrated approach to intermediate Japanese' and it was basically fine but I didn't stick with it beyond the first few chapters. How to explain? I guess I just found the content of the dialogues a bit irritating/boring/focused on student life. "My name is X and I studied Japanese in high school..." "Let me introduce my friend. She likes to play tennis." - that sort of thing. I'm probably being unfair and selective in my memory but that was the impression I was left with.
I switched to Tobira,
http://tobira.9640.jp/xoops/
http://www.amazon.com/Tobira-Advanced-Japanese-Learning-Multimedia/dp/4874244475
which seems like a very similar level, and it seemed more varied and interesting. Apart from that, the content in terms of grammar, vocab, kanji etc in both books were good, I thought, and probably not too dissimilar. Both books have a good amount of recorded audio for listening practice, which is very important to me.
I never used the Genki textbooks, but looking through them, I had the same somewhat negative opinion, for the same reasons. I believe IATIJ carries on from Genki, thus I imagine that anyone who liked Genki would probably be happy with IATIJ.
Can anyone recommend a good Intermediate Textbook? - chamcham - 2012-02-06
I recommend "Japanese Speaking Patterns for Effective Communication".
Sometimes we call it JSPEC on this site.
It is a great bridge from basic to intermediate level conversation.
Btw, if you haven't finished RTK1, you should.
Can anyone recommend a good Intermediate Textbook? - rachels - 2012-02-06
chamcham Wrote:I recommend "Japanese Speaking Patterns for Effective Communication".I also, think this a such a useful book. And I don't care if anyone complains about the romaji (It does have full kanji as well).
http://books.google.com.au/books?id=0BtGalt5ts4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=-+japanese+Speaking+Patterns+for+effective+communication&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ml8wT7-IB6mOmQWT-LW6BQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=-%20japanese%20Speaking%20Patterns%20for%20effective%20communication&f=false
I think it is useful at the beginner level also. The first few chapters start off with the most basic of sentence patterns.
Can anyone recommend a good Intermediate Textbook? - Elenkis - 2012-02-06
I will add another recommendation for Tobira. I prefer it to Integrated Approach as it covers quite a lot more grammar and for most of the book the reading exercises are longer, more varied and better structured in my opinion. I just enjoyed reading them more (though I'll note that I haven't finished Tobira yet and don't know if that will be true all the way through).
I found Integrated Approach became more interesting once it starts using real Japanese newspaper article and book samples as the reading exercises, but that's only in the last few chapters.
Can anyone recommend a good Intermediate Textbook? - yudantaiteki - 2012-02-06
I thought Kanji in Context was really good.
Can anyone recommend a good Intermediate Textbook? - quark - 2012-02-06
Tobira is a really good book. There's lots of extra online material, such as audio recordings, grammar and kanji tests, and a section where you can record yourself speaking and compare it with a video. The book also contains a lot of practice conversations, in both polite and casual speech.
The best part (for me) is that it doesn't focus on business or school life, but rather covers different aspects of Japanese culture, such as geography, food, sports, holidays, etc.
Can anyone recommend a good Intermediate Textbook? - Inny Jan - 2012-02-17
Just visited スリーエーネットワーク, and found out that they are to publish みんなの日本語中級Ⅱ 本冊 in April.