Ok well ill start out getting straight to the point without any beating around the bush, im trying to learn Japanese at home.
This is what I have:
Pimsleur Japanese Audio Cds
Eurotalk/World Talk Japanese (Japanese computer games)
Japanese for Dummies (book)
Japanese in 30 Hours (book)
A Guide To Learning Hiragana & Katakana (book)
A Guide to Reading and Writing Japanese (book)
Pre- Ordered - Drive Time Japanese Cds (learn japanese in the car)
This is why im not in a normal Japanese class:
Once again, to be blunt, I narrowly graduated High School and was next to dead last in my class, right now im struggling through some low level computer certification classes at a local college, and my GPA is complete garbage. Japanese classes tend to only be offered by universities and ive had 4 of 4 aps completely rejected, im devising alternative strategies as of now.
This is what im doing:
Right now ive been forcing myself to hours of repeated hours of audio cd listening, and reading through my "Japanese for Dummies" book to grasp the basics of the Japanese language, and its structures of sentences. Ive been told by some people (not experts, because I dont know any) that getting down the basics of speech is good before diving into elements of reading and writing, so thats what im doing. (even though i have some writing books already)
So, I want to know primarily if there is anything im missing, anything else I need to buy, and am I doing this in the correct order more or less? Or is it completely wrong? If it is wrong what do I need to fix this issue?
kthx!
This is what I have:
Pimsleur Japanese Audio Cds
Eurotalk/World Talk Japanese (Japanese computer games)
Japanese for Dummies (book)
Japanese in 30 Hours (book)
A Guide To Learning Hiragana & Katakana (book)
A Guide to Reading and Writing Japanese (book)
Pre- Ordered - Drive Time Japanese Cds (learn japanese in the car)
This is why im not in a normal Japanese class:
Once again, to be blunt, I narrowly graduated High School and was next to dead last in my class, right now im struggling through some low level computer certification classes at a local college, and my GPA is complete garbage. Japanese classes tend to only be offered by universities and ive had 4 of 4 aps completely rejected, im devising alternative strategies as of now.
This is what im doing:
Right now ive been forcing myself to hours of repeated hours of audio cd listening, and reading through my "Japanese for Dummies" book to grasp the basics of the Japanese language, and its structures of sentences. Ive been told by some people (not experts, because I dont know any) that getting down the basics of speech is good before diving into elements of reading and writing, so thats what im doing. (even though i have some writing books already)
So, I want to know primarily if there is anything im missing, anything else I need to buy, and am I doing this in the correct order more or less? Or is it completely wrong? If it is wrong what do I need to fix this issue?
kthx!