ghinzdra Wrote:Yeah but why not watch television or listen podcast if you want casual speech at normal speed ? you'll get a lot more of that ...I thought you were just talking about being efficient? Listening to a speech where a large majority of it involves grammar you haven't learned along with having no native transcript isn't exactly what I would call efficient. A Japanese novel has more "natural" sentence patterns than KO2001 so why doesn't everyone just start with that? Reason: Because for a beginner it has a lot of stuff you haven't learned yet, nor need to learn at that moment.
IMO one should listen to both, which is what I do.
BTW no need to upload example tracks. You can listen to a few of them here:
http://www.whiterabbitpress.com/catalog/...16500.html