Textbooks and general questions.

zulixia · Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2012 4:26 am Post subject: Textbooks and general questions.

Hi there all! Long time no see! Smile

Last time I was here I was studying japanese full time on my own. But since then i've had to go back to college full time on a music technology course and swap to just 2 days (not whole days) a week on japanese. Originally I was going to go for N3 or N4 minimum. But in recent I have a lot more on my table so i've had to reduce down to N5.

Now I have been using tanos's JLPT-N5 list in recent to study what I need. I already knew the Kanji as I learnt 200-250 pre-hand. But I can't seem to knock vocab, I forget it very quickly and it won't stick since my only method is repetition and trying to form simple sentences but it's not working, so I want to try something more structured!

My main questions:

1) I currently own Japanese for busy people 1 & 2 which I haven't used yet. If I work my way through these is it enough to get through JLPT-N5 ? As I work a lot better with a structured course rather than just learning vocab.

2) If I do use JFBP 1&2 how long roughly do you think it would take?

3) Are there any other cheap books targeted to N4/5 ?

Thanks and happy new year to everyone Smile

!

Peace.

NeWbY · Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 4:19 am Post subject:

I did JFBP 1, 2 and 3. It's a basic book about Japanese covering various subjects. It took me like half a year to intensively go through the first two books, as the grammar is pretty difficult at times, and I had to repeat many things since it wouldn't stick in my head.
Though the books also cover N3 (and JFBP 3 covers some N2 AFAIK) grammar, it's good for N4 and above I think.
Though the vocabulary shouldn't only be studied from JFBP since it's probably not enough.

I don't know about other books as the only books I used to study for the old JLPT2 were JFBP 1, 2 and 3, and some private japanese lessons while I was in Japan, together with a JLPT2 grammar list, and mnemosyne for kanji/vocab.

dimitri_can · JLPT Helper Joined: 04 Dec 2007 Posts: 605

See my old list here.

http://www.jlptstudy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=492&highlight=

ranitarmidi · Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 3:29 pm Post subject: Request for Ebook

Hi, I'm currently learning for preparing JLPT. I am looking for Minna No Nihongo I ebook everywhere. Then I found the textbook from rapidshare (http://rapidshare.com/files/71464070/mnn1.zip). But it's only from chapter 1 to 18 while the whole book consists of 25 chapters.

Can anyone share the Minna No Nihongo 1 from chapter 19 to 25 for me? Please.

Thank you.