Right on. Thanks.
And I don't think exchange groups and classes are useless, by any means. If you can sit down with someone and ask questions, and they're excited to answer, help, and practice, that's totally a good thing.
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Right on. Thanks.
And I don't think exchange groups and classes are useless, by any means. If you can sit down with someone and ask questions, and they're excited to answer, help, and practice, that's totally a good thing.
車庫 B1F
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Formal study always helps too. When I don't know a kanji or word, often times I'll end up asking one of the Japanese (kokugo) teachers if a JTE isn't around. Or I'll have to look it up myself. Usually I just ask by whoever doesn't look busy sitting closest to me.
Usually I freak out the teachers by not knowing some basic/simple kanji compound in comparison with being able to speak the language pretty well.
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Is anyone taking a class this year? Apparently they changed it from the awful stuff last year and you can still register so I was wondering if it was any good.
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i already declined a while ago lol
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It looks a lot nicer, but I haven't heard anybody screaming about it on the facebook page like last year.
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Well i'd guess the enrollment is way down due to last year being awful.
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Well I signed up for the late term one, the class is completely different from the one last year. Seems to do a much better job of explaining things.
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Damn I wish I had signed up for it now.
That's the best thing about having books on your phone etc. You can read without having to be self-conscious of what you're reading
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Having done about half the course I think it is pretty solid. The online textbook is pretty nice by itself but they also have videos for each grammar point explaining and giving examples (They also have a phone app). Uses way too much hiragana which is annoying but at least it isn't romaji I guess.
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Finished the course a while back, might take the next level later this year but now have a nice system with a couple anki decks, slowly going through an intermediate textbook, and practicing writing kanji with those books for elementary schoolers.
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Interesting, I'm using some old tri-lingual Kanzen master N3/N2 books. I wonder if I should sign up for the next one then.
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This course is laughably easy, and it shouldn't be considering how shit my Japanese is. Am I really going to be able to take N3 after this?
That's the best thing about having books on your phone etc. You can read without having to be self-conscious of what you're reading
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Probably the N3 isn't really that hard.
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If it is laughably easy, welcome to the shit I opted out of when I was a JET.
It will be a cold day in hell when CLAIR gives JETs a reasonable Japanese learning program, as this is the group which has hindred English EDU for 70 years!
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