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ahibba Wrote:

buonaparte Wrote:OCR your Assimil - ABBY Fine Reader is good - and then proofread them

Is ABBY better than ReadIRIS?

No idea. I use Fine Reader to OCR Japanese texts. If a pdf file is good enough, there are practically no error.

ahibba Wrote:

buonaparte Wrote:By the way, I've no idea who you are.

tegoku, do you still use pochta.ru free e-mail?

No, I don't use any emails any longer.

ahibba Wrote:

buonaparte Wrote:Why on earth do you need Assimil?

Not for me, but for a Russian friend who wants to learn Japanese.

If s/he's Russian, let her visit rutracker, they've got plenty of Russian courses there. Much better than Assimil.

ahibba Wrote:Assimil is very good for beginners and even the intermediate level. It's better than most English-based courses (Teach Yourself, Pimsleur, Hugo, etc.), and in some aspects it is better than Linguaphone.

You might be right, I don't know. Language courses are painfully slow and boring for me.

ahibba Wrote:

buonaparte Wrote:Grab an audiobook with a parallel text, that's all you need.

How can a novice read a real book in Japanese, even if it has a translation?

I've already explained it, once is more than enough.
If I can do it, anyone can do it, I'm not a genius. Grab real Japanese right from the start and you'll see it IS possible.