About how much of the JFE vocab is represented?

Shirow66 wrote:

Hey guys, I've owned the JFE textbook, workbook and kanjibook for quite some time now, but I've never had time to go through them all. I feel they are excellent books for self study, probably one of the best out there. I recently found mp3 files of the original audio tapes for all 27 lessons so I thought I'd share them with you guys. Here's a link:

http://www.megaupload.com/se/?d=60TD2DD7

Thank you so much! This is exactly what I've been looking for.

Last edited by vinniram (2010 July 29, 2:37 am)

Well the textbook you can simply get from amazon, or thejapanshop dot com


As far as the workbook and kanji book goes, I've never heard of them being revised or widely available like the book, so I assume their popularity/usefulness wasn't as great as the main text.

A friend got their hands on the Kanji book and said it was useless.  Really unnecessary after RTK anyways the way that JFE presents kanji.  If you are going to get a kanji book go with KO2001 or basic kanji book or kanji in context or something along those lines instead.

Audio is no longer in print but all the scripts are in the back of the book if one wanted to read them or have them read.  I also heard a rumor that audio was available online for those with no problem with that *see above* ( since it's out of print i don't have an opinion one way or the other )

Last edited by Dustin_Calgary (2010 November 20, 12:50 pm)

Unfortunately, it seems the link for the file on the first page of this topic is old.

Does anyone have a complete vocab list for JFE that could be imported to Anki? There's an incomplete shared deck on Anki, but that's all I've been able to find.

Thanks!

Last edited by jishera (2011 February 20, 5:33 pm)

Hi vinniram, I realize that all of the vocab is in the back. I was looking for a ready-made list that I could import into Anki though (discussed on the first page of this topic). Thanks though! I just edited my post to make that clearer.

Last edited by jishera (2011 February 20, 5:34 pm)

EDIT:: never mind, I just found the .ogg of JFE's audio. I've converted them to MP3 so if there are any JFE users out there who'd like the audio, feel free to PM me.

I apologize for resurrecting such an old thread but seeing that people discussed the acquisition of audio here, I would like to know if anyone would be so willing to share the audio online. All the links are dead and they are no longer commercially available. I have searched on Amazon (and eBay) for the audio tapes to no avail.

Thank you!

Last edited by stesani (2012 August 31, 7:39 pm)

It's currently out of stock, but keep an eye on http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/Japanes … 0870408533 & http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/Japanes … 4889962345 . The site deactivates notification for books permanently out of stock, so it's sure to come up eventually (no guarantees as to when though).

Hi,
this is my first post and I hope this forum will be of great help for me

To raise the topic about JFE fans
I compared some books before starting and I choose JFE for my basic japanese textbook.

I really love the structure of the book, grammer and dialogues topics, BUT the now I'm around lesson 5 and I have some problems! I do not want to change the book as I like JFEE but if my issues continues I will have to change it!

My biggest issue is the vocabulary! They keep representing all the dialogies and texts in kana and till lesson 5 introdused only few kanji I know there is a vocab list at the end of the book but mu problem is that the kanji (real writing) is not in the dialogues so I can use to it. Moreover the text 95% in hiragana becoming hard to read and distinguish the separate words and its endings.

OK, I look up the kanji vocab, write it somewhere, but it is not the same as if they write it in the dialogues all the time so I can use to it

Please suggest me something, or eventually I have to search for other book, but hardly will find one like JFE - dense, packed, etc.

Yes but I was told that Genki the dialogues/texts are quite school-ish and it is not so dense/fast as JFE?

tashippy, it depends on what you want to do. Do you feel like you need a big review? If so, then go through JFE quickly to review. Otherwise, I'd just move on to an intermediate textbook and keep challenging yourself. For myself, I definitely don't remember every chapter 100% in the book (I'm in chapter 10 right now), but I figure there will be enough repetition that I will keep moving forward even if I feel a bit rusty on some things.

vebaev, you would probably have a similar problem with Genki. Since both textbooks are for beginners and gradually increase kanji, there is going to be a lot of kana throughout the books. Towards the end there is less kana, but only 500 kanji are used total in JFE. Most beginner textbooks have this problem.

If you like JFE, I would just stick with it, ignore places it doesn't use kanji, and use an SRS (or whatever method you like) for vocab and grammar and put the kanji in your cards. Plus, the dialogue is supposed to be listened to, you aren't really supposed to read it anyway, right? :-)

In Anki, for example, I use the corePlus vocab deck and I go through and search for the vocab in each chapter in JFE and I put in chapter tags (JFE01, JFE02...JFE10...etc) This way I am getting exposed to the kanji for the vocab.

There is also a sentence grammar deck for JFE in this topic that you can use. I think it has kanji.

You could also try Bowring and Laurie's "An Introduction to Modern Japanese" which teaches more kanji, but both the textbook and required workbook are very expensive, and there is no answer key as far as I know.

Tae Kim's grammar guide has kanji in it too, and that is free.

Good luck!