Question:
I have downloaded the Genki: An integrated course to learning Japanese book (1st edition) for free. I have not started it. Would it be worth buying the 2nd edition of the book for £40 or just read through the first edition? What changes are there between the two editions? Thank you.
Answer:
If your even going to have a japanese book (which isnt very useful it only has polite japanese) you should only download. A better place to learn is online.
The following websites are the best websites for the following reasons,
http://www.123japanese.com
- Teaches FULL Japanese lesson free
- Polite, Casual and slang Japanese (all Japanese)
- Fully explains lessons
- Teaches kanji and kana aswell
- Has video lessons
- Books, vocabulary lists and verb lists to give you more info
- A forum to ask questions
- Lots of study materials
They also have a youtube channel
http://www.youtube.com/123japanesecom
http://www.japanesepod101.com
- Has many lessons and study aids
- polite and casual Japanese
- unfortunately not free, you only get 1 week free trial (but just keep signing up with fake email)
http://www.maggisensei.com
- It teaches random lessons
- Detailed lessons on wide variety of topics
- Casual and polite Japanese
- You can find a lot of stuff here you wont find anywhere else
What to stay away from.
- books. : books only teach polite Japanese and usually have general translations rather than explanations. Polite Japanese isn't even used in casual speach, and books don't have a lot of information.
- Websites with not a lot of explanations: when learning a language, its easyer if you get a good detailed explanation on the translation of something because a lot of times, something can't be directly translated.
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