Yeah, the example on the website sounds great.
To do shadowing, obviously you need the book (a transcript) + the sentences.
Thanks again for the discussion - this seems to be exactly what I'm looking for and will be ordering it soon.
ghinzdra - I'd say that both are important. You need to use audio that you're prep'd for (i.e. with transcripts) for shadowing purposes, but listening to real audio "in the wild" puts you in a situation where you don't know what they will say next (which is good as well). I listen to podcasts daily, but the audio really just blows by me a lot of the time. I get the gist, but couldn't possibly shadow it.
And I'll be taking the advice to leave it off my SRS, which will be nice. I've been looking for ways to study Japanese that aren't in front of my computer. That's the main reason I don't do iKnow. heh.
To do shadowing, obviously you need the book (a transcript) + the sentences.
Thanks again for the discussion - this seems to be exactly what I'm looking for and will be ordering it soon.
ghinzdra - I'd say that both are important. You need to use audio that you're prep'd for (i.e. with transcripts) for shadowing purposes, but listening to real audio "in the wild" puts you in a situation where you don't know what they will say next (which is good as well). I listen to podcasts daily, but the audio really just blows by me a lot of the time. I get the gist, but couldn't possibly shadow it.
And I'll be taking the advice to leave it off my SRS, which will be nice. I've been looking for ways to study Japanese that aren't in front of my computer. That's the main reason I don't do iKnow. heh.
Edited: 2009-02-18, 4:41 pm