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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | ok - but disappointing and frustrating for a beginner |
| I was disappointed in both the cards and the audio.
I would recommend instead - or at least first - the Kana Cards by Tuttle Co for flashcards for beginners. [[ASIN:0804835500 Kana Cards (Tuttle Flash Cards)]] I recommend instead, for audio items: Learn in Your Car Japanese and VocabuLearn [[ASIN:1591253837 Vocabulearn Japanese Complete (VocabuLearn)]] [[ASIN:1591257131 Learn in Your Car Japanese: The Complete Language Course (Learn in Your Car)]] The Tuttle cards have the Japanese in the front - with both the Japanese spelling and the English in the back. This set has Only Japanese in the front and Only English in the back. I am a complete beginner trying to learn on my own, and I can use all the visual help and review possible; having to flip back and forth without ever seeing both together does not help it stick as quickly as the Tuttle cards do. [[ASIN:0844285188 Easy Hiragana: First Steps to Basic Japanese Writing (Passport Books)]] This book was the best for both making learning less boring and easier to learn. (there is also a book by the same author for Katakana. It gives 8 Hiragana (2 pages) to learn to write (with space for writing) and then gives 2 pages of words to practice using those 8 for reading and writing practice. The reason I was so disappointed and frustruted in the Audio for these Kana cards since it is ONLY Japanese, WITHOUT ANY explanation whatsoever anywhere as to the pattern of the audio, AND IT IS VERY HARD TO FOLLOW UNLESS YOU KNOW JAPANESE. It is not meant for complete beginners. For example: Card 1: Has A with a sentene below it, and then 5 numbered words listed below. In the audio, it seems like the sentence below the A is read first, or maybe it is saying first card - who knows? then the A, then instead of the words, it seems to say the number of each word? - if that is what it is saying? and then the word twice, if you can manage to keep up (not horribly fast, but definitely Not slow either) esp when you have to try to sort between the actual vocabulary words and the other stuff in-between. For just review/brushup or someone taking a class, this probably isn't a problem, but for self study and a being a complete beginner - which is what I thought these cards were for since it is just the Kana basics - it is extremely frustrating and disappointing. The Intro is Only just a warning not to make copies of the cd. The Intro explains nothing about the audio. There is nothing giving any indication about all the other Japanese mixed in with the sounds and words. If you want to hear the Kana sounds by themselves - I would recommend Everthing Conversational Japanese. Though I do not highly recommend it. The first track is the Kana sounds said only in Japanese, said very quickly as if the person were in a rush to be somewhere else - there is absolutely no way to repeat the sounds while listening since the person says them so fast; but they are clear and easy to hear. The rest of the audio is conversation, also said very quickly. More like for practice in understanding real life conversations - also all in Japanese only (with the book being in English. The book is all in Roman letter - none in Kana/Kanji. I liked hearing the Kana sounds separte from their being used in words since I am brand new to Japanese. [[ASIN:1593371470 The Everything Conversational Japanese Book: Basic Instruction For Speaking This Fascinating Language In Any Setting (Everything: Language and Literature)]] |
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