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An Introduction to Modern Japanese by Richard Bowring - Gosujay - 2012-03-28
Hey everyone I was wondering if anyone has used this book.
If so please share You'r experience with Me if you would not mind.
An Introduction to Modern Japanese by Richard Bowring - SomeCallMeChris - 2012-03-28
Didn't we just do this next door and didn't you already buy the books? Wha...
http://thejapanesepage.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=16036
(Also, I do have the book; when I first tried to self teach from it I gave up, but I only had the main text not the workbook so I wasn't being instructed on how to read the kanji and flipping back to the romaji at the end of the chapter was torture... When I read it later after taking an actual Japanese class it seemed to be a decent enough book - in particular, it has some very clear grammatical explanations that got me set straight in quite a few ways. Nonetheless, terrible book for self teaching, IMO. Probably a great book in a class.)
An Introduction to Modern Japanese by Richard Bowring - Gosujay - 2012-03-28
Oh hello there!and um yes i guess my real question would be how other folks went about using the book weather alone or with other material.
yes i do have it and have been using just would like to get an idea if there is more i could be doing.
An Introduction to Modern Japanese by Richard Bowring - SomeCallMeChris - 2012-03-28
As I said, I didn't actually self-teach from it, but you certainly do want to find some audio course to supplement it.
Check out this thread,
http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=6840
While I don't really agree with buonaparte's on that kind of pure text+audio learning, I do think that doing -some- text+audio learning is quite important. If you neglect pronunciation and listening, you can't subvocalize - you can't 'hear' words in your head as you read them if you don't know what they sound like.
An Introduction to Modern Japanese by Richard Bowring - squarezebra - 2012-03-29
I used this book, and I wrote a review on amazon. To get the most from it you really need books 1 and 2. It teaches from the very basics all the way up to a fairly intermediate level, but to study it alone is HARD. There are no answers provided to the exercises, but that's really not a bad thing as it forces you to really check your work and do some supplemental research if you're not sure about something.
I personally really enjoyed it, thou I'm sure it isn't for everyone. The grammar explanations are very thorough, and it progresses at a much faster rate than many other books. On the flip side, it is a very dry read, and you might want to have some of your answers in book 2 checked by a friend if you're doing it solo.
I'd thoroughly recommend it.