Re: Learning pronunciation

On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 23:06:58 -0400, Chris Kern wrote:

If you can get your hands on a copy of the CD-ROM for Japanese: The
Spoken Language volume 1 (which is *not* the same as the online audio
files), that has a lot of pronunciation exercises and also allows you
to record your voice and then hear it in comparison with the model.

You have chosen a very unusual way to approach Japanese; even if you
complete book 2 you will still not be able to read Japanese without
learning the grammar and the vocabulary. It might be good to work
with a normal textbook in addition to volume 2 of RTK. Japanese: The
Spoken Language may actually be quite suitable for you in this
situation since you're pursuing the written symbols on your own --
however, at some point you will still need to start practicing
actually *reading* things. You won't, unfortunately, be able to
finish book 2 of RTK and then just immediately pick up a newspaper and
read it fluently.

Considering the way you have approached your studies, I recommend ,Kanji
from the Start: A Comprehensive Japanese Reader" (Paperback) by Martin Lam
(Author), Kaoru Shimizu as a logical next step. It will allow you to
integrate the kanji you have learned into regular sentence structure.

Phil Yff
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