jettyke Wrote:why this material? Is it better than others?For what I'm doing with it, "My Book of Bible Stories" is the best material as far as I know.
Japanese audio + Japanese text + English text with:
- Reasonably natural Japanese, intended for native speakers. (I asked one of my Japanese friends on Lang-8, who thought there are occasional odd expressions but it's mostly fine.)
- Modern Japanese. (Almost all audiobooks are made from public-domain material. And almost all public-domain material is from before WW2.)
- Relatively easy on the vocab and grammar, while also having a decent number of kanji in it.
- Good-quality audio, 9 hours long, with dense speech.
- The three parts are all DRM-free.
- The Japanese text and audio match exactly.
- The English text connects exactly paragraph-for-paragraph, and almost sentence-for-sentence.
Other JW material has most of these traits.
Edited: 2011-08-20, 5:55 pm