It seems like we've been spending about 4-5 hours of class time on lessons 7-14, plus I've been doing another 3-4 hours of work on the exercises, plus another 2 or so on vocabulary and dialogs, so about 8-12 hours per lesson. The real trick, I discovered, is simply to memorize as much as possible: vocab, grammatical points, paradigms. I've been hit-and-miss trying to memorize dialogs and example sentences, and really need to do more of that.
The Japanese conversation is with real Japanese via Skype. Between The Mixxer and mixi.jp I have more conversation possibilities than I can handle.
Yep, with a wife and 2 sons and a full-time job, it's a challenge!
The Japanese conversation is with real Japanese via Skype. Between The Mixxer and mixi.jp I have more conversation possibilities than I can handle.
Yep, with a wife and 2 sons and a full-time job, it's a challenge!