Shadowing book: 1,000 sentences WITH native audio pronounciation!

activeaero Wrote:Ghinzdra your post doesn't really make that much sense to me. You say you "forgot" most of the conversations in this? [/b]Why were you memorizing them in the first place? [/b]

You also say it has no structure? I argue that it has all the structure it needs for beginner level material. It's divided into 5 sections based around general grammar constructs. Besides this is book/CD isn't supposed to be a pure grammar book or a huge vocabulary builder.

What it IS designed for is building a really good listening/pronunciation foundation for beginners by using very natural and full speed Japanese. From my use it has done exactly that. I'm still at a VERY beginners level when it comes to grammar and listening to this CD (I have ripped some of it to MP3) has gone along perfectly with my grammar studies. Listening to just the first few lessons I immediately started hearing those same constructs all over the place in "real" Japanese speech (TV shows, movies, etc). I'm not sure what more one could ask for.

IMO I now believe the best way to use this book is to just forget SRS'ing it. Do your grammar SRS'ing and vocabulary building with whatever material you are currently enjoying but then use the audio that comes along with this to reinforce those concepts and train your listening ability. Rip it to MP3, put it on shuffle and then just let it play.

[/b]Why were you memorizing them in the first place? [/b]


well I don't know ... maybe because it's written both in japanese and english that the eventual goal is that dialogue "really becomes part of your japenese and (that ) you'll be able to use it properly in real life situation"

I'm a bit naive .I'm likely to believe what I read
sorry just teasing.
I agree there are other goals and intermediate steps , I also agree that it's some good japanese , very casual , very natural . But I still think that it's unefficient. And DEFINETELY NOT FUNNY. And I want at least one of them :efficience or fun (i'm not learning as much japanese when I'm playing my DS as some other activies but i'm still learning and this a real leasure for me ,tons and tons of fun . ) . And both is better (AJATT.....) .