Re: Query: Regression to the Pimsleur.

On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 00:41:26 GMT, mirror wrote:

I plan to repeat Pimsleur, assuming Pimsleur's meager grammatical
instruction but good speech prompting will trigger speech from me,
and from there I can use my relatively stronger grammar skills to
bootstrap on this.

Has anyone tried this? With what results?
No miracles, but it was helpful to repeat it. I suffered (and still do)
from a severe shortage of people to talk to in Japanese.

Thank you. I want to hang on grammatically.

Reading books with lots of dialog is one way to accustom yourself to
grammatical dialog. I like Akagawa Jirou. His 名探偵、大集合 (Meitantei,
Daishuugou - Large Collection of Famous Detectives) is a good place to
start. It contains five novellas that are representative stories of some
of his most well-known series. It will give you a flavor of how he writes
and, if you like him, give you samples to help you select a series to dive
into. It's recent (2006) and widely available at a mere 700 yen - here it
is at Kinokuniya:

http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4334740707.html

Phil Yff
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