wrightak Wrote:What the book does:yeah but it s dead boring.
-It provides lots of example dialogues
-It provides translations and explanations of some phrases
-Good quality audio
-It separates the dialogues into difficulty level, giving you an indication of how common the content is
Everything you hear is stuff that you hear in normal conversations. You can of course get this from Japanese TV or radio, but stuff on the TV hasn't been broken down into bite size chunks and you don't get translations and explanations of tricky phrases.
I mean RTK, KO2001 ,UNICOM/kanzen/Tae even Iknow all this stuff is formal . BUT it s effective .
No matter what khatz or others may say I definetely endorse those as first step in japanese .
What is really annonying me with shadowing is I did it for a couple of months and I didn t see a signicative improvement in my ability . While you can have an overall understanding of japanese with 1000 kanjis You must know way more than 1000 sentences to get a grasp on hearing and speaking. Shadowing approach is basically flawed.
As for me once you completed RTK , KO2001 and a couple of grammar book you re done with formal stuff . You must dive into real japanese (which means interesting and done for the japanese) . There is enough drama , anime , movie for you to make a shitload of little sentences. And trust me this is way more fun .
Edited: 2009-08-25, 2:09 am