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Please note that there are additional comments at the bottom of the How to Read Japanese page.
Hello, I don’t usually leave comments on webpages like this or anywhere really but I felt the need to sincerely thank you for all of your work here.
Recently I started a relationship with a girl visiting my country on a working visa and instantly gained interest in learning Japanese as she is doing with English, before I found your files I was always reading PDFs on my commutes and felt like I was learning everyday.
Now I listen to your lessons in addition and can honestly say I am far more adept in such a short time than I ever imagined, in passing on the streets I can roughly pick up topics I hear others speaking of and such. As others have posted I am commited to immersing myself into the language because it is most effective. I repeat lessons over and over until I pull out something that I didn’t notice before in terms of sentence structure and only then I move on, but it’s working.
These lessons are truly gems and I believe what you have here is quite generous, thank you.
Thank you, Travis. I appreciate your support.
Hello!
I’ve just wanted to ask a quick question:
I’ve bought Japanese for Everyone and found your website (very good by the way 🙂 ) and I would like to ask which lesson to listen to while learning Lesson X in JfE. JfE has 27 Chapters should I learn Lesson 1 while listening to your Lesson 1 and so on?
And second question: what is better: listening first and then JfE or JfE Chapter and then listening?
Thanks in Advance and thanks for these lessons!
Julian
Hi Julian,
I’m glad you bought the book. That should be very helpful to you. Yes, Lesson 1 in the audio lessons corresponds to Lesson 1 in the book and so on.
I think you may find that it’s best to work on the book and the audio lessons more or less in parallel. That is, you can read and try to understand the book during sedentary time at your desk, and you can use the audio lessons while walking or commuting, keeping a few pages of the printed transcript at hand so that you can easily refer to them.
Good luck!
Hi Roger.
I want to thank you so much. These lessons are very helpful to me. Before I started with yours, I was stressed. It’s because I can’t find any impressive lesson sources. They were so boring and monoton, also they need high cost to be able to access.
Please keep developing this site, Ok? ^^
Ananda,
Indonesia.
Hi Ananda,
It’s good to hear from you. I’m so happy to hear that the lessons are helpful.
As I understand it, Japanese pitch accent is not especially important. However I would be curious to know where the speaker (okusan desu ka) is from. Could the lessons be described as having a ‘Tokyo downstep’, which I’ve read is the most common?
I love the lessons! The syllables are really clear, whatever the case.
Hi Joe,
My wife, Noriko, is originally from Fukuoka, in Kyushu. We’re happy to hear that the lessons are working for you.
Self learning in a country other than Japan is very difficult. Whilst I can understand what is being said (to a certain extent) when hearing Japanese spoken, actually speaking it myself has proved to be next to impossible. Your lessons force me to stop and think and to actually have a go at trying to come up with something in response. I’m loving it. I like the way there are several similar examples of the same type of grammar that gets me used to how a sentence is constructed for that particular grammar point. I have been reading the .pdfs first and then listening to the lesson over and over until I fully understand the grammar being studied. Then I try to make up my own sentences using similar constructions. Thank you so much for this resource.
Hi Tess,
Thank you for your comments describing your experiences with the lessons. I’m happy to hear that they seem to be helping you.