Comments on: How To Use a Japanese Textbook /how-to-use-a-japanese-textbook/ You don't know a language, you live it. You don't learn a language, you get used to it. Sat, 04 Jul 2020 16:09:19 +0900 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.13 By: Holiday Magic! Omnibus: The Mother of All Sentence Packs | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time /how-to-use-a-japanese-textbook/#comment-1000063743 Wed, 25 Dec 2013 03:07:09 +0000 /how-to-use-a-japanese-textbook#comment-1000063743 […] How To Read Signs in Japanese | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time on How To Use a Japanese Textbook […]

]]> By: How To Read Signs in Japanese | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time /how-to-use-a-japanese-textbook/#comment-1000063665 Tue, 24 Dec 2013 11:37:21 +0000 /how-to-use-a-japanese-textbook#comment-1000063665 […] How To Use a Japanese Textbook […]

]]> By: Zombies and Japanese, Or, The Halloween Horror Sentence Pack: Available Only Until, Well, Halloween | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time /how-to-use-a-japanese-textbook/#comment-1000060445 Tue, 22 Oct 2013 06:07:21 +0000 /how-to-use-a-japanese-textbook#comment-1000060445 […] matter that’s actually fun and funny and interesting and relevant to your life, because how many times are you going to read a textbook that shows you how to say you’re a student wit… before you want to shoot yourself and come do some Halloween for real (yeah, apparently Halloween […]

]]> By: How To Be Angry, Snarky, Hyperbolic, Emotional, Witty, Petulant and Sarcastic in Japanese | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time /how-to-use-a-japanese-textbook/#comment-1000059662 Tue, 08 Oct 2013 15:37:08 +0000 /how-to-use-a-japanese-textbook#comment-1000059662 […] matter that’s actually fun and funny and interesting and relevant to your life, because how many times are you going to read a textbook that shows you how to say you’re a student wit… before you want to shoot yourself? Exactly. This sentence pack will actually make you laugh, a […]

]]> By: Nino /how-to-use-a-japanese-textbook/#comment-1000059268 Sun, 29 Sep 2013 20:47:43 +0000 /how-to-use-a-japanese-textbook#comment-1000059268 A good textbook to mine your sentences is the Genki series. It’s actually written by real Japanese people with godlike credentials.

]]> By: How To Get Used to Using Computers and Other Gadgets in Japanese | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time /how-to-use-a-japanese-textbook/#comment-1000057073 Mon, 26 Aug 2013 15:37:09 +0000 /how-to-use-a-japanese-textbook#comment-1000057073 […] engaging, for-native-by-native subject matter that’s actually relevant to your life, because how many times are you going to read a textbook that shows you how to say you’re a student wit… before you want to shoot yourself? […]

]]> By: Translate from Spanish to English /how-to-use-a-japanese-textbook/#comment-1000054210 Wed, 17 Jul 2013 15:33:26 +0000 /how-to-use-a-japanese-textbook#comment-1000054210 You’re right dude. Basically it’s tempting to buy books for beginners; so that you have something physical to show that you are LEARNING something. I bought a book once entitled “Hablar ingles es facil” (to speak English is easy) basically written for Spanish who are trying to learn English. What I liked about it is that it focuses on situational phrases and dialogues and I bought it for only a couple of pennies from a bargain store.

]]> By: Success Story: Using AJATT to Pwn Japanese Classes (Which Still Suck), And Moving On In Life… | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time /how-to-use-a-japanese-textbook/#comment-321577 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 03:37:15 +0000 /how-to-use-a-japanese-textbook#comment-321577 […] then, I started paying more attention to the materials we were using in class. They were incredibly boring…. I remember getting really burnt out with our study materials and I would simply put it down and […]

]]> By: CHoPSTiX /how-to-use-a-japanese-textbook/#comment-271526 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 20:46:24 +0000 /how-to-use-a-japanese-textbook#comment-271526 I’m not sure if it can be considered a standard textbook, but “All About Particles” is really useful for learning particles (duh), has a lot of good (afaik, natural sounding) sentences and is nicely organized. And in any case it’s useful as a reference book if you come across some new combination of particles in a sentence, so I would recommend getting it.

]]> By: How to use a textbook | Spanish Only /how-to-use-a-japanese-textbook/#comment-222874 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 16:54:52 +0000 /how-to-use-a-japanese-textbook#comment-222874 […] it much more economical to make a speaking deck out of a textbook than from random media sources. Textbooks can indeed be used for good. Once I feel comfortable with this deck, I’ll switch over to mimicking my normal French deck; […]

]]> By: ahndoruuu /how-to-use-a-japanese-textbook/#comment-179759 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 11:24:05 +0000 /how-to-use-a-japanese-textbook#comment-179759 Nah.  AJATT Plus is cool but it won’t actually teach you anything.

It probably would have best been spent on manga 😛 You know how much manga you can buy in Japan for $200?  Frightening amounts, let me tell you. 

]]> By: Suisei /how-to-use-a-japanese-textbook/#comment-179622 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 23:24:49 +0000 /how-to-use-a-japanese-textbook#comment-179622 Darn it. I just bought over 200 dollars for genki ;w; I should have spent it on AJATT Plus..:C

]]> By: How to use a textbook to learn languages | Learn Languages the fast way /how-to-use-a-japanese-textbook/#comment-174846 Sat, 10 Dec 2011 03:59:55 +0000 /how-to-use-a-japanese-textbook#comment-174846 […] more ranting about textbooks and how you can use them, here :/how-to-use-a-japanese-textbook Share this:TwitterFacebookLike this:LikeBe the first to like this post. By Efficiency Hacks- Do […]

]]> By: Jason /how-to-use-a-japanese-textbook/#comment-79561 Mon, 21 Feb 2011 19:49:06 +0000 /how-to-use-a-japanese-textbook#comment-79561 Can you write an example sentence of a sentence that you don’t understand?? Maybe I can help you.

]]> By: You’re Not A “Learner”, You’re A Logistics Officer | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time /how-to-use-a-japanese-textbook/#comment-75484 Thu, 03 Feb 2011 03:00:14 +0000 /how-to-use-a-japanese-textbook#comment-75484 […] To the extent that the word “learn” often comes loaded with connotations of boredom, textbooks, confusion and more boredom, you don’t get good at Japanese by “learning” it. […]

]]> By: Tyler (Brokenvai) /how-to-use-a-japanese-textbook/#comment-72980 Sat, 22 Jan 2011 21:43:13 +0000 /how-to-use-a-japanese-textbook#comment-72980 I did what Khatz did with his initial 500, which was mining sentences from a J-E dictionary. They’re so simp-o. And everything is clearly explained.

When I use the online Goo dictionary, I just borrow the Japanese example sentences they use to put the word in context. Then usually I can get a feel for it as well as the definition.

]]> By: Eri /how-to-use-a-japanese-textbook/#comment-72498 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 03:48:14 +0000 /how-to-use-a-japanese-textbook#comment-72498 Okay, so I’m not sure where exactly to ask this, but I guess here is as good as anywhere(?):

I know textbooks suck; I have some I’ve used for sentence mining and by the second book I’m all “augh, I hate this, I want to mine sentences from the hordes of fanfics I have bookmarked!” But I find that even if I look up all the words in a sentence from something I see on a Japanese website I don’t understand the sentence. I know basic grammar, and I can sometimes guess how it’s supposed to go, but I hate not being ‘quite sure’. Currently when I mine sentences from Japanese websites I only put the meaning of words, even if i don’t understand the sentence. But is this really helping me? I don’t know… I feel like the only place I can get sentences that I understand is from those boring textbooks. This is kind of why I’m having trouble switching to Japanese-Japanese QA in my SRS. Well, that and even when I look up the definition of words with a J-J dictionary I can understand the definition at all… (Have I just not done enough reps with my 500+ cards… or what?)

Thank you in advance for any advice you can give; I really love this website and all its content. 🙂

]]> By: パウラ /how-to-use-a-japanese-textbook/#comment-63377 Mon, 06 Dec 2010 03:33:26 +0000 /how-to-use-a-japanese-textbook#comment-63377 Just anything, ANYTHING but “Japanese: The Spoken Language.”

First of all, not only is there not a single Japanese character in sight in the whole freaking book, but it uses the most irregular romanization I’ve ever seen. Seriously, it’s terrible.

Also, there’s pages and pages of uninterrupted, overanalyzed grammar. After “reading” them I just go ?_? (usually with an accompanying 何これ！？, right?) Seriously, it’s terrible. It’s scary. I should post a photo sometime– just, don’t do it.

That’s beside the fact about it being outdated as hell. It still talks about “便利なタイプライター” (useful typewriters), okay? Typewriters haven’t been all that useful for YEARS. (I mean, it’s just an example but w/e.)

Spare yourself your sanity. I only have it for school requirements, just like I use Windows purely for a school requirement, and…I digress.

Point is, don’t do it! 🙂

Great tips though, I’ll try my best!これからも頑張ろうね〜　仕様がないかも。

]]> By: Johann /how-to-use-a-japanese-textbook/#comment-20342 Sat, 23 May 2009 20:23:51 +0000 /how-to-use-a-japanese-textbook#comment-20342 NHK offers a free textbook at www.nhk.or.jp/lesson/english/learn/story/index.html
It has 100 lessons, and each of them comes with 5 minutes of audio (around 30 seconds of which are in Japanese) that you can listen to while going through the text. I’d say it’s pretty good for a bilingual textbook. It doesn’t even try to waste your time with useless tasks, it just gives you a few hundred Japanese sentences with English translations, wrapped up in a little story about a martial arts student who comes to Japan in order to become an Aikido master (you can do a lot worse for a textbook story).

But, I have to say, “mining” this thing got boring pretty quick for me, even though it’s not all that long. I lost interest after lesson 36 or so… dem computer games I’ve got here are much more interesting, and going through them feels a lot less like work. Maybe I’ll finish up the rest of the book in a couple of weeks or so… but for now, finishing Planetarian 〜小さな星の夢〜　and Ever17 has priority 😀

]]> By: efeilliaid /how-to-use-a-japanese-textbook/#comment-17734 Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:11:25 +0000 /how-to-use-a-japanese-textbook#comment-17734 Oh yes, Japanese for Everyone is THE book. In my opinion it takes you REALLY FAR and where grammar is presented, it’s presented in a *useful* way. The accompanying audio (‘out of print’) is great too and you can get it here and there legally, as it’s not in shops anymore.

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