日本語能力試験ターゲット series of four books (2 kanji/2 vocab) published by obunsha.

I saw them at the book store the other day and decided to buy all four books. It was a very easy decision. The reason why I bought them was because they come with access to full mp3 audio. I really like audio. Anyway if you get both vocab books you have access to 4000 full sentences with mp3 audio and English translations. I thought the SRS buffs out there might like that.



http://estudy.obunsha.co.jp/cgi-bin/index.cgi

wow i want to srs this! thank you so much.

I think this series would be a great next step for people who just finished CORE6000.

You can bring your sentences with audio up to 4000 and the sentences in these books are quite a bit more grammatically complex than the sentences in core.

They have an Iphone App! lol someone should check that out too.

Hi I just picked up the N1 Vocab book. Let's start a group mining project. I think we can pull the Japanese off the downloadable PDF pages so we just need to type in the English for the target word and sentence. Audio is great one mp3 each word and per sentence.

[Katsuo]

NoSleepTilFluent Wrote:They have an Iphone App! lol someone should check that out too.

The English version is due for release today (but I don't know whether the present situation in Japan will delay that).

I bought some Kanken apps from the same developer – they are quite good.

Katsuo Wrote:

NoSleepTilFluent Wrote:They have an Iphone App! lol someone should check that out too.

The English version is due for release today (but I don't know whether the present situation in Japan will delay that).

I bought some Kanken apps from the same developer – they are quite good.

It was released on the 14th.

kaiten1 Wrote:Hi I just picked up the N1 Vocab book. Let's start a group mining project. I think we can pull the Japanese off the downloadable PDF pages so we just need to type in the English for the target word and sentence. Audio is great one mp3 each word and per sentence.

how does the online thing work and what all is there? is the access code in the physical book? can it simply be read off in a store? i would like to help with a group mining project, though i'm not sure how fast i can get the books in the US (suggestions on where to buy online?)

Anybody know what the name of their iPhone app is? I can't find it on the app store and their website is typical bullshit everywhere such that I can't even find a link to their product.

Nevermind: Here's the link to their iPhone App page http://jlpt.obunsha.co.jp/#NO3

Audio quality sounds pretty good! Is there any hesitance to be had regarding the kanji books though? Don't you want some context for those words? I know there's audio and that's nice, but still, it's just audio of a single word being spoken. The vocab book with sentences seems like a much better deal. What do you all think?

Hm, bummer, the Kinokuniya stores don't seem to carry them in the states... :\

kodorakun Wrote:Hm, bummer, the Kinokuniya stores don't seem to carry them in the states... :\

Yesasia seems to, if you need a place to buy them from.

Bokusenou Wrote:

kodorakun Wrote:Hm, bummer, the Kinokuniya stores don't seem to carry them in the states... :\

Yesasia seems to, if you need a place to buy them from.

Thanks for the link -- I was just hoping to be able to physically browse them, look at their example sentences and get a more real feel for their quality. If enough people are interested in making a project of the book then I might just take the plunge and purchase.

kodorakun Wrote:

Bokusenou Wrote:

kodorakun Wrote:Hm, bummer, the Kinokuniya stores don't seem to carry them in the states... :\

Yesasia seems to, if you need a place to buy them from.

Thanks for the link -- I was just hoping to be able to physically browse them, look at their example sentences and get a more real feel for their quality. If enough people are interested in making a project of the book then I might just take the plunge and purchase.

Ah, OK. There seem to be a few sample pages here(scroll down, look for the black 読んでみる/見てみる　buttons).

Here are 2 pics I just took for your reference also. Let's get this project started!

One Page
http://img191.imageshack.us/i/sample2sa.jpg/

Upclose
http://img151.imageshack.us/i/sample1y.jpg/

i wish there was some way of knowing how much overlap there is with these and core6000, or the current jlpt vocab lists out there. i don't want to buy the N2 book at the yesasia price just to get a small fraction of new words, but then again i don't want to miss those words.

i see there is a section with questions. are those sentences the same ones as when you learn the word or are they new?

radical_tyro Wrote:i wish there was some way of knowing how much overlap there is with these and core6000, or the current jlpt vocab lists out there. i don't want to buy the N2 book at the yesasia price just to get a small fraction of new words, but then again i don't want to miss those words.

i see there is a section with questions. are those sentences the same ones as when you learn the word or are they new?

There will be some overlap with the N2 book and CORE but I think people should consider doing it anyway because the sentences in the N2 book are more grammatically complex than the overly simple sentences of CORE.

N1 book will have very little overlap, probably not much at all.

It also comes with 25 quizzes (of 20 questions each) per 500 words.

100 quizzes total for the N2 vocab book.

I haven't downloaded the quizzes for the kanji book yet. Anyone else look at them yet?

Just as a note, anyone downloading their App, whilst its free it uses in-app purchases on all the material so to actually do anything with it you have to pay. Its about 4$ per book.

Actually burrowing a little deeper, it would seem alot of stuff can be accessed free it just offers the option of purchasing the books through it,
Tests and Individual Kanji review (With a stroke order touchpad thing) are free.

Since the App itself is free, still worth giving it a play around to see what you think.

Just picking out random words but it looks like most of the words in the N2 book already appear in CORE but most of the words in N1 do not show up in CORE.

Hi. Practice exam uses the same sentences to test for the vocab item.

Really awesome resource:
http://www.tanos.co.uk/jlpt/

Grammar usage and vocab for every JLPT level.

For the Chinese lovers (taking the HSK exam):
http://www.tanos.co.uk/hsk/

practice tests for all levels
http://www.jlpt.jp/samples/forlearners.html


There was another site that has all practice tests going back to the 1990's
(anyone know of it, I can't seem to find it)

ta12121 Wrote:practice tests for all levels
http://www.jlpt.jp/samples/forlearners.html


There was another site that has all practice tests going back to the 1990's
(anyone know of it, I can't seem to find it)

http://jlpt.biz/
3rd link at the top of the page

Hi everyone,

I've started mining the N1 Obunsha JLPT Vocabulary book and wanted to share a sample of my progress. Hopefully this will encourage others to contribute to the project. Please let me know if you are interested. I've developed a pretty efficient process that takes care of about 70% of the info but it would be great to get some additional help.

With just a few more people, we could easily bang out all 2000 vocab items (and sentences) in a week or so! Some of the work is just data checking so for all of you who bought the book and are waiting for the book to arrive, you can still get started ASAP on this project with me.

Please let me know if you're interested.

Cheers!

Sample N1 Obunsha JLPT Deck (1st 25 vocab/sentences with audio files).
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5APOFUNI