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 Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 6:13 pm
Lately,I've been hearing alot of hype about the Genki series.And I just wanted to know,is it a good text book?Is it worth the money?Where can I get the best price for it(generally online)?Is there any other text book that is just as good,or even better then the genki series?
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Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 10:25 pm
Well, I don't know so much about the Genki Series (just heard of them), but I have some other books I've used. My bookstore used to have a section dedicated to language, and a whole shelf for Japanese, so I'd go and pick up a book every now and then. Is what you're looking for a textbook, though?
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Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 12:10 pm
Genki is very good. I read through both books without doing any of the work and skipped a college class. 3nodding
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Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 8:15 pm
I've looked through them and they look great. Only they cost about $40 CAD. Right now, I'm using the JAPANESE FOR BUSY PEOPLE tectbook which is great as well. This one comes with a CD which really helps with pronounciation. smile Good luck!
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Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 7:28 pm
i used the Genki Volume 1 for Japanese 101 in college. it's pretty good, except that it can be a little vague here and there. you have to get a Genki workbook to further your studies as you read the volumes.
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Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 8:33 pm
No you don't. I read through them and skipped Japanese 121 and went to 122.
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Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 10:30 pm
Hermonie Urameshi No you don't. I read through them and skipped Japanese 121 and went to 122. huh. well, for ME... i needed the workbook with the textbook, because i learn better with activities rather then just read and listen. everyone has different learning methods and different grasping of the subject levels.
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Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 8:54 am
Still, it's not vague on any point. If it were I wouldn't have had the chance to skip Japanese 122 as well. (I didn't because when I first came to the class I thought I wouldn't be able to skip until it was too late to change.) 3nodding
If you really need other books to supplement certain parts I suggest anything by Naoko Chino and Taeko Kamiya. There are somethings in their books that neither of the Genki books cover, but they're also for getting an associates degree and that's about it.
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Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 10:59 pm
hmmm... i found it vague. i'll go re-read the chapters then. i guess it was my sensei's teaching taught with the book. she talks about the lesson in the book, turns and talks about her way of understanding the lesson, and then go back to the book. it got confusing. i guess that is where i though the book was vague. i don't know... i'll re-read the volumes.
as for the recommendations... i'll look into those. Arigato gozaimasu! 3nodding
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Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 8:11 am
They were very helpful before I got Genki and the particles books and sentence patterns books are still a great help. 3nodding
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Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 3:36 pm
oh buddha... those are what i need... particle and sentence pattern books. thanks for the names. i'm looking into them... hopefully i can excel before i continue my J-classes.
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Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 9:55 pm
genki is a great book to learn from. one of the best from what ive learned. most of the other books ive used didnt help much and they threw words that u werent in the vocabulary. genki covers pretty much everything u need.
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Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 6:24 pm
We use Genki at our university and it's great. I especially like that it challenges you, you have to learn hiragana to read anything but the first chapters and later on they start mixing in kanji too.
And it was written in Kanzai Gaidai, the same university that my sensee and my japanese friends come from. smile
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 10:10 am
Yes, Ive had Genki I and the workbook for just a few months now, and I enjoy it, and I am happy I chose Genki. I also have Japanese for busy people I, and I think it's really good for conversational Japanese and simply that. I wouldn't use it you study from by itself.
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Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 8:46 pm
We use Genki in my college class. We don't really use them though. We mostly learn from our Sensei's lecture. She follows the order of the book though. I dunno. She doesn't even need a book to teach, she was born and raised in Japan. xD;
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