I also use JFE. I am not very far along with it yet, but it is a truly impressive book. In a single volume, it is the equivalent of the 2 Genki texts and the 3 Japanese for Busy People texts. It covers things in good detail. By the end of the text, one can comfortably work with 500 kanji (reading as well as writing). For those who use RTK 1, learning these kanji is a breeze. Rather than memorize the kanji readings like other textbooks suggest, JFE uses furigana above the new kanji for the first several uses until the reader can become self-sufficient when seeing these kanji again. When a person finishes this book (and has truly mastered it's teachings), they have reached intermediate level in japanese proficiency (see japanese wikibook).
I think that the only thing that this book lacks is supplemental resources. If other users of this text can come together as a group we should be able to create or devise other supplemental resources to this book to help master it as efficiently and totally as possible.
I am all for this. Anyone else???
I think that the only thing that this book lacks is supplemental resources. If other users of this text can come together as a group we should be able to create or devise other supplemental resources to this book to help master it as efficiently and totally as possible.
I am all for this. Anyone else???