jondesousa Wrote: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.Why yes, I think that would be a splendid idea! I coincidentally have a good portion of the exercises in the first 12 lessons in an excel spreadsheet, ready for a flashcard program (I use supermemo, but you can tweek it for whatever you want).
I am all for this. Anyone else???
Christoph Wrote:What I'd like to ask is; are the audio CD's a necessary part of this course? or can they be overlooked?I'm pretty sure they include only the opening dialogues and the listening comprehension excercises. I believe they cost over $100 too. Everybody has their own ways of learning, but what I really want are all the exercises in the book on audio, in the english-japanese-japanese format. This greatly improves my speed. Oh, what's that...? Hey it looks like I just happen to have the exercises for the first 10 lessons on audio (this is not the book's audio; it's me reading my sentences in english-japanese-japanese). You are welcome to them. My pronunciation is good, but not perfect, so it's up to you...
Christoph Wrote:Also, do you think it'd really be beneficial to someone already a year into japanese study and (almost) at the JLPT 3 level? I'm not trying to say I'd know everything in the book... only that I'd like to know what level of JLPT might a student expect to be at once finished with the text?I'm no expert, so I hope others also answer this, but I believe this covers most if not all the grammar required for JLPT2. Depending on how you do in other areas, it's probably enough grammar to pass JLPT1 too. I'm just talking grammar here; there's a lot of other stuff to master for JLPT1 & 2 (tons of vocabulary, kanji, reading skills, listening skills, etc.).
One last note - I really want to put this stuff in a place where it can be dowloaded (I don't want to be sending a lot of private emails, and I don't even know how to handle the audio). So please give me some suggestions. I would like to keep adding stuff as I go along. I'm just finishing lesson 14 now, and my plan is to do 1 lesson per week until I finish it.