College Path

Haha. I’ve been studying Japanese for about a year now. Its funny to hear someone else say they’re worried about being seen as a weaboo. Honestly… I’ve had those insecurities, but at this point, I don’t care. I know I’m not one, I’m mostly doing it for fun and because I love J-music. Japanese is a beautiful language, and its a good challenge and Japan has a fascinating culture and really is a gorgeous country… though its hard to keep it up being a full time student!!! >=(

Oops, I meant to say..I wish I had the actual CD for it,. I only have the cassettes.

I don’t mind flash cards for learning the basics of a new script. That is one I will mmake an exception to the rule. I use flash cards when I need to obtain information quickly. I actually learned bopomofo from a Taiwanese children’s book and flash cards.

I find them okay for the fundamentals of a new script, but once I got it down I throw them away.

He has no secret – but he does have a combination of motivation, amazing resources, time, determination, stringent discipline, a laconic lifestyle, consistency, and best of all, love.

How’s the Teach Yourself Cantonese? Has anyone here ever used it?

Of course I think you can still do it, but you would just have to really arrange time. It would probably be best to just finish up your school stuff then get into boot camp mode with languages. This was the mistake I made. I was having problems with school work because of foreign language obsession.

Yea like, TY isn’t the same for every language, but it still has the same concept.

You heard what that man said about RS, and he’s a master. You can’t even get to high beginners with that stuff lol!

There’s no secret man.

I’ll never use Rosetta Stones and flashcards and I’ll never use them because it’s just learning vocab out of context… Really boring I prefer to learn it in a context ! Like dialogs or texts. Assimil is great !!! You should try it out ! I think it’s very good approch but the only thing is that you have to know french to use it in the 60 languages available. They limit it to 9 languages for english native speakers…

RS works for my room mate, but I will never touch it. The way RS is set up cannot motivate me to learn a language like a well written text book can. He went through Spanish level 3 and I think he is perhaps low intermediate. He umm *cough* didn’t pay for it *cough*. But still if he did I think that would have been 1K for overly expensive phrase books and online flash cards.

It is all up to how one is able to study. I do not reccommend RS though.

The only problem I have with the Teach Yourself series is the quality greatly differs between languages. I especially love their books for Finnish and Icelandic but when I bought the Korean Teach Yourself, I wanted to throw it away. It was complete garbage.