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From: gtaylor@astroatc.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Request for Beginning Japanese Text
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Date: Thu, 12-Dec-85 17:19:06 EST
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Reply-To: gtaylor@astroatc.UUCP (Greg Taylor)
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>I have seen another 2 vol. set - Beginning Japanese by Jorden
>which I think are good and they have tapes that go with them.
>(The tapes are expensive, though, and I understand the books 
>are very intense grammar-wise). They can be obtained at 
>Kinokuniya also.

That's a *3* volume set if you wish to include "writing Japanese".
The text is programmed to begin at about lesson 9 of the first
volume of Beginning Japanese. While I have not been a terrifically
assiduous student of Dr. Jordan's texts (having had some contact
with her at Cornell), my impression is that her method *might* be
difficult to do alone, since the classroom situation she uses in
her own FALCON (Far East Asian Language CONcentraion) program uses
two teachers-one of whom *only* speaks Japanese and does no explanation
of grammar, and one who does the actual explication in English. I
have little to go on but my impressions of the students her program
produces. The year-long intensive Japanese program seems to have
impressive results indeed.


-- 
She lost her luck/She lost her red shoes/she lost her wallet
but she never lost her nerve./She wasn't lonely/no not much.
-the Golden Palominos----------------------------------------
Gregory Taylor/...!uwvax!astroatc!gtaylor /Madison, Wisconsin