Message 28 of 34402 November 2012 at 11:37pm IP Logged Japanese With Ease Volume 1 First glance: Going to be slow going. Long introduction about the Japanese language. I think it was intended to motivate and introduce the basics of pronunciation and the writing system. Very long-winded when you are anxious to get started. I rushed through it the first time, then found myself going back after trying to tackle lesson 1. There are 2 Appendices, one with Kana [Hiragana & Katakana] in 2 tables. The second Appendix is an index of all words use in book with pronunciation and translation.
Il nuovo portoghese senza sforzo. Il nuovo greco senza sforzo (greco moderno). Il latino senza sforzo. Il francese senza sforzo. Il greco antico.
Instructions for how to actually use the book are sparse - despite the long-winded introduction! 'Until lesson 49, you will listen and read aloud, do your exercises, and have fun trying to learn some Kana and Chinese characters.' Is says you can learn to write some Kana for 'fun' but it is not mandatory. Lesson 1: layout seems to be typical Assimil with left side in Japanese and right with English translation.
Lesson has 7 simple phases with mixture of kanji and Kana with the romanization below. Already I find myself ignoring the kanji and Kana which I know defeats the purpose - so I have to make myself go back over it. Audio lessons start with first very slow pronunciation of lesson followed by reading at fairly normal speed. Apparently they only do this for first 6 lessons. Pronunciation is not hard for speakers of English.
Free Download Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow Full Version Compressed. My Assimil method: 1) listen to audio without book several times. 2) listen to audio while reading English translation several times. 3) Listen to audio while reading romanization. 4) Listen to audio while looking at Kanji & Kana many, many times.
5) Do exercises. Other: Listen to audio over and over again in car to and from work. Denki Groove Yellow Rari. Also, I think I will have no choice but to use Anki to help learn the Kana, then later the Kanji. The writing system is going to be the biggest hurdle.
First lesson took over an hour to feel pretty comfortable - without really memorizing the Kana or Kanji well. They did manage to cover 23 Kana & about 9 Kanji in the first lesson. This may end up being brutal, but I will march on. Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China Joined 2195 days ago - Speaks: *,,,,,,,,,, Studies:,,,,,.
Message 29 of 34402 November 2012 at 11:53pm IP Logged Le Breton sans peine. Note: the post is in French, so you'll have to be able to understand that to read it (I am learning Breton through French, and most resources are in French, some are in English though - but I am not using those). I will post a more thorough update concerning the course itself later this weekend or beginning of next week. If I post here, it'll be in English, but I will frequently just link to my other log, and then it may occur that the post is in French, or hopefully at the end written in Breton itself.
Edited by tarvos on 02 November 2012 at 11:55pm Triglot Senior Member France Joined 2123 days ago - Speaks: *,, Studies. Message 32 of 34404 November 2012 at 5:49pm IP Logged Il nuovo russo senza sforzo, Italian edition of Le Nouveau Russe sans peine I've just finished the 4th lesson of Il nuovo russo senza sforzo. I must admit that the first impact with the language has been rather brutal, as I don't remember the last time I've started a new language from scratch and without an introductory period of laid-back dabbling to pick up at least some basics. And Russian being neither a Romance nor a Germanic language, there's almost no tranparency with any of the languages I already know. The biggest problem for me right now is that I'm still learning the cyrillic alphabet and I need to master it in order to copy the lessons. I know from experience that I memorize vocabulary and structures much better if I write them down. Just listening and repeating isn't particularly efficient for me.