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Learning Japanese
dankles:
A free gift from my home town:
GPB Education (Georgia Public Broadcasting)
Japanese I: http://www.gpb.org/irasshai/term/japaneseI
Japanese II: http://www.gpb.org/irasshai/term/japaneseII
156 videos * ~20 Mins each = 52 hours of free video
They are wmv's so you have to forgive that, plus it was done in the 90's so it can be a little cheesy sometimes, however it's still a huge free resource.
Anyways, another thing that helps me is to use post-it notes with the japanese names of objects then stick them to the corresponding objects in my house. It's a great way to visually remember things.
Note to linux users:
(click to show/hide)The mms streams don't play very well with mplayer, so you might wanna use xine instead.
--- Quote from: Semnae on July 26, 2007, 11:24:04 PM --- Slime Forest for reading Japanese ;D
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Whoa! It's actually working for me! nice!
Aneroph:
--- Quote from: dankles on June 01, 2009, 08:39:00 PM ---Anyways, another thing that helps me is to use post-it notes with the japanese names of objects then stick them to the corresponding objects in my house. It's a great way to visually remember things.
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That only goes so far. In fact, that was probably chapter 1 of my School textbook.
dankles:
--- Quote from: anerph on June 02, 2009, 12:06:19 PM ---
--- Quote from: dankles on June 01, 2009, 08:39:00 PM ---Anyways, another thing that helps me is to use post-it notes with the japanese names of objects then stick them to the corresponding objects in my house. It's a great way to visually remember things.
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That only goes so far. In fact, that was probably chapter 1 of my School textbook.
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Of course, I was just giving one simple easy tip. I realize that self study and get you pretty far, but the only real way to completely learn a language is to practice with a lot native speakers or even better, to move to the native country for awhile. Then obviously there is the written part that requires both reading and writing.
That's how I learned Spanish. It wasn't easy, but it was a lot of fun.
EDIT:
Oh yeah, did I mention I was fluent in only 4 months with almost no previous training? My grammar wasn't the best and I didn't understand everything, but I could speak the language without pausing to think.
How ever, my secret was that I was living in a Spanish speaking country with people that only spoke spanish (I was the only english guy for like 10 square miles).
dankles:
Anyone know of some good Japanese music to go to sleep to? (for learning while I sleep)
psyren:
Forget Japanese music, just listen to Coldplay.
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