I am currently going through the Genki textbooks, and in order to remember the grammar therein, I am attempting to represent each major point in each grammar section with at least one sentence (preferably two) in my Anki deck. I much prefer to have audio with each sentence, and I've found that smart.fm is a great resource for that, but it often times doesn't have sentences for each rule I need. I'm wondering if there are any other sites out there where you can search through a large set of Japanese sentences that have audio with them, or if there are any sites with categorically sorted audio sentences.

http://rhinospike.com/ maybe?

So you don't like the audio that comes with Genki?

Hmm, Rhinospike looks like its got a great idea, but is there some way to search? I would love to see that site really get going, I would even be interested in contributing. Search is really a must have though.

As for the Genki audio, the $40-ish dollar 2 CD set for students doesn't sound like it would have enough, and the 6 CD teacher set is insanely priced at over $200. I don't get the pricing, if the quartered that price they'd probably sell 10 times as many copies.

You can search the Rhino by tags, but I'm not sure people use them that much.

While the Genki CDs are priced highly, they are valuable for the material they cover, since each chapter will supply you with audio dialogues and exercises for the grammar.

Since they're not worth the high price though, many students either share or simply download off the internet. A lot of teachers will even sympathize and on the first day of the class just tell their students to copy MP3s for each other or pirate them online.

That is exactly what I don't get, if they lowered the price to a sane level, people would actually be able to afford them and they would make more money. The only motivation I can see for such a high price is to prevent anyone but teachers from buying it, and I can't figure out why they would want to do that. Honestly, even the student one is $18 a CD, which is quite ridiculous.

Anyone have any other online source for Japanese audio sentences?

I posted about line-by-line audio resources here or how to make them:
http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=6734&page=3

Probably the simplest, searchable, and very practical way is to use Unicode playlists:

Playlists are very easy to edit too - and you can use a mouse-over pop-up dicitonary with them, too.

For that you need to name your audio files like this:
注意 【ちゅうい】 (n,vs) (See ご注意) caution; being careful.mp3
注意を払う 【ちゅういをはらう】 (exp) to pay attention (to).mp3
注意を注ぐ 【ちゅういをそそぐ】 (exp) to pay attention.mp3
注意力 【ちゅういりょく】 (n) attentiveness.mp3
注意力不足活動過多症 【ちゅういりょくふそくかつどうかたしょう】 (n) attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder.mp3
活動写真 【かつどうしゃしん】 (n) (obs) moving picture (i.e. a movie; term esp. used during the silent movie period).mp3
活字体で書く 【かつじたいでかく】 (exp) to print (on a press).mp3

I have Jim Breen's dictionary with all audiofiles named like that.

buonaparte Wrote:Probably the simplest, searchable, and very practical way is to use Unicode playlists:
http://i56.tinypic.com/ngedcg.png
Playlists are very easy to edit too - and you can use a mouse-over pop-up dicitonary with them, too.

This gave me a really good idea — I made this with all Core 6000 sentences and vocab, and now I use foobar2000 to play them like this:


The search is neat: