Wow. Doing the Duolingo Japanese → English course in reverse had some pretty tough parts. Finally… - Feed Post by mog86uk
Wow. Doing the Duolingo Japanese → English course in reverse had some pretty tough parts. Finally reached the end of the skill tree though!
- screenshot: http://snag.gy/DUtue.jpg
I've encountered and used quite a lot of JCJP vocabulary on there, even a couple of JCJP lv7 vocabulary I'd only just learnt, which has been helpful. Even though I've finished the skill tree my level is still only lv11 (41%). I've got a long way to go before I reach 100%. Just wanted to recommend doing this course in reverse as an excellent way to practice Japanese sentence grammar. :)
- screenshot: http://snag.gy/DUtue.jpg
I've encountered and used quite a lot of JCJP vocabulary on there, even a couple of JCJP lv7 vocabulary I'd only just learnt, which has been helpful. Even though I've finished the skill tree my level is still only lv11 (41%). I've got a long way to go before I reach 100%. Just wanted to recommend doing this course in reverse as an excellent way to practice Japanese sentence grammar. :)
posted by mog86uk
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One of the final lesson categories is 仮定法過去完了 ("subjunctive past perfect"). Here are a few of the questions and answers in its lessons:
"She would have said something."
彼女は何か言っていただろうに。
"I would have considered that university."
私はあの大学を検討していただろうに。
"That game would have changed my life."
あのゲームは私の人生を変えていただろうに。
Somehow I'd never noticed any Japanese sentences ending in に before (not in this way, at least). Maybe I've just not been very observant and this is something which is very common? These particular lessons seemed pretty interesting to me. ^^
Duolingo finally came out with a JP class? What a time to be alive.- Well, this course is only intended for Japanese speakers to learn English, not the other way round. However, it works pretty well for English speakers wanting to practice Japanese sentence composition. Most of the time when I'm doing the course I forget that it's not really a Japanese course.
Sadly, I think it's going to be a long time before they release a proper Japanese course for English speakers.
If anyone wants to do this JP->EN course, there are two settings (設定) which you will probably want to turn off:
・マイク (microphone). Definitely turn this one off. Turning this off will completely disable the questions where you read an English sentence and have to answer by speaking it back in English into a microphone.
・スピーカー (speaker). It's kind of nice that it reads out the English questions so that you don't have to read it. However, if you don't turn this off, you will be given some questions where you hear the English sentence and have to type what you heard in English. Although it's not quite as nice as it being automatic, you can still click the speaker icon or press the CTRL+SPACE keyboard shortcut to make it read out the English questions.
With these two settings turned off it will feel mostly like a Japanese course. ^^ 
I think i showed you Doulingo in Japanese didn't I?
Sadly, as you said, it is going to take a long time until they make a version for English speakers.By the time the will finish making it I hope i won't be needing it..- @Tamir, Yes you did. I'm very glad I checked it out. Thank you for that. ^^
I checked out the incubator page and the Japanese course hasn't even reached incubation phase 1 yet. So it hasn't even been started.
Hopefully once the JP->EN course has reached phase 3 they'll get started on the EN->JP course. I plan to register as a contributor to the EN->JP course if my Japanese skill reaches a level suitable for doing so. There are only 6 contributors for the JP->EN course, so maybe these things don't need a lot of people to get going. :) - ＠mog86uk I started using Pimsleur in Japanese, and I think its actually good. It's an audio based program that teaches you useful things that i've actually used unlike other programs, like Rosseta Stone.
They say that in order to learn a language you have to speak it from day 1, so I hope i'm not too late XD
Tamir, it's okay to a point, but really, if at all possible, find an actual class.- @Arachkid you are talking about Pimsleur? I will only know if it is good after I reach to lesson 30 on course 1. what would you recommend besides this site and Memrise?
- What I mean is, find an actual class - if you're not in Japan, see if there is a local Japanese cultural center or something like that in your city/town, you may be able to study Japanese with actual speakers of the language, which is good, because those CDs teach you some of the stalest sounding stuff. It's good to start off with, though, that's for sure.
Wow, very resourceful!
Thanks, for the helpful suggestion.
