Yookoso Textbook? Is it any good? Has it been mined by anyone?

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Reply #1 - 2009 May 04, 10:16 am
blackmacros Member
From: Australia Registered: 2009-04-14 Posts: 763

I'm taking a beginner Japanese course at University right now and we are using the 1st Yookoso textbook, and I had a few questions about it.

1) Has anyone had any experience with it? Is it any good? I did a forum search but turned up no results.

2) Would I be better off going Tae Kim --> iknow Core/KO2001 than bothering with my textbook? Or is it a decent textbook, and worthwhile going through and sentence mining?

Which leads on to me final point:

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a) If it *is* worth mining, has anyone done so already? Would save me a lot of time and I would be very grateful :-)
b) Even if it isn't worth mining, considering I'm in my university course for better or worse and the curriculum is based on Yookoso (and whilst priority 1 is eventual fluency, getting a good grade would be nice too)...would it be worth going through and mining anyway do you think?

Thanks in advance :-)

Reply #2 - 2009 May 04, 12:43 pm
wccrawford Member
From: FL US Registered: 2008-03-28 Posts: 1551

Personally, I would be entering each week's lessons into Anki in advance for the textbook your school uses.  That guarantees your grade.

Then I would look into what's the best use of the rest of your time for the year.  Personally, I'm finding ko2001's list (the one we are making on iKnow) to be very nice for learning some basic vocab and pronunciations of the kanji.

Reply #3 - 2009 May 04, 11:39 pm
blackmacros Member
From: Australia Registered: 2009-04-14 Posts: 763

wccrawford wrote:

Personally, I would be entering each week's lessons into Anki in advance for the textbook your school uses.  That guarantees your grade.

Yeah I was kind of thinking that too, except flicking through my textbook it seems like the vocabulary list:example sentence ratio is shocking. Hundreds of words of vocab and only a few example sentences. To get the most use out of the textbook then, I'd have to try and put that vocab into example sentences myself. That will take a lot of time if I have to look up each word in a dictionary to find an example sentence for it. And I think I probably would, because a lot of the vocab they give can't just be swapped into their example sentences.

Which is why I was wondering, does anyone know if Yookoso has already been mined by someone? It would save me a lot of time.

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Reply #4 - 2009 May 04, 11:59 pm
Hashiriya Member
From: Georgia Registered: 2008-04-14 Posts: 1072

check www.smart.fm and see if anyone has made lists using that textbook... also you could input the vocab into your own list and pick sentences to use with it...

Reply #5 - 2009 May 05, 12:41 am
blackmacros Member
From: Australia Registered: 2009-04-14 Posts: 763

Hashiriya wrote:

check www.smart.fm and see if anyone has made lists using that textbook... also you could input the vocab into your own list and pick sentences to use with it...

That's a great idea! I haven't really used smart.fm yet as I've only just finished RtK, so I didn't even know you could do that.

There are a few yookoso lists up already but only vocab, and only a few chapters here and there. Still, that's better than nothing and as you said, I can take those vocab lists and manually add sentences.

Thanks a lot! :-)

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