Re: Beginer text book for self study recomendation

From: mirror (mailto_at_127.0.0.1)
Date: 09/28/04 

Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 02:08:28 GMT

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 19:11:26 -0300, Francisco
<fran575@mailandnews.com> wrote:
>I will read nakama 1
>textbook and in certain places I will have to look on the workbook and
>listen to the CD's sold separate?

Yes. The books will refer to audio and exercises in the exercise
manuals and on the CDs.

If you can get over your opposition to romaji, the other standard
for English learners is "Japanese: The Spoken Language"...

The Jorden spoken series (I've used these, too. Absolutely superb
and an excellent alternative examinination of the grammar. The main
texts alone, which cost less than $100 total, are valuable
references. They are, however, typographically ugly) ...
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Get most of the audio here, free...
ftp://streaming-ftp.it.ohio-state.edu/audio/jpn09su03/
http://www.cheng-tsui.com

Covers about 80 percent of all Japanese grammar.
(Peter Boyd, Columbia University)

Three book series can be spread over one to three years
of instruction. The most common appears to be two.

Japanese: The Spoken Language: part 1 (lessons 1-12)
Audio cassettes
Cheng and Tsui, June 1, 1999
Revised: 14 audio cassettes...
ISBN: 0-8872-7247-9
Original: 9 audio cassettes...
ISBN: 0-8872-7130-8

Japanese: The Spoken Language, part 1 (lessons 1-12)
Eleanor Harz Jorden, Mari Noda (contributor)
Yale, October 1987
ISBN: 0-3000-3834-8

Japanese: The Spoken Language, Part 1:
Supplement: Japanese Typescript
Eleanor Harz Jorden, Mari Noda (contributor)
Yale Univ Pr, April 1994
ISBN: 0-3000-4280-9 <== Contains the kana and kanji for the book

Japanese: The Spoken Language, part 2 (lessons 13-24)
Eleanor Harz Jorden
Yale, June 1988
ISBN: 0-3000-4188-8 <==

Japanese: The Spoken Language: part 2 (lessons 13-24)
12 audio cassettes
Cheng and Tsui
ISBN: 0-8872-7131-6

Japanese: The Spoken Language, Part 2:
Supplement: Japanese Typescript
Eleanor Harz Jorden, Mari Noda (contributor)
Yale Univ Pr
ISBN: 0-3000-4281-7 <== Contains the kana and kanji for the book

Japanese: The Spoken Language, part 3 (lessons 25-30)
Eleanor Harz Jorden
Yale, June 1990
ISBN: 0-3000-4191-8

Japanese: The Spoken Language: part 3 (lessons 25-30)
Eleanor Harz Jorden, Mari Noda (contributor)
6 audio cassettes
Cheng and Tsui
ISBN: 0-8872-7158-8

Japanese: The Spoken Language, Part 3:
Supplement: Japanese Typescript
Eleanor Harz Jorden, Mari Noda (contributor)
Yale Univ Pr
ISBN: 0-3000-4282-5 <== Contains the kana and kanji for the book

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