Learning Kanji And Grammar At The Same Time?

Hither are some questions frequently asked well-nigh Genki.

Revisions in the Second Edition

What are the main changes to the revised edition?

I'one thousand a long-time user of GENKI. Tin I nevertheless use the handouts and other classroom textile I prepared for the first edition?

Targeted Learners

Who is GENKI designed for?

Can GENKI be used for self-study?

Is GENKI suitable for use in high schoolhouse classes?

Time Requirements

How much course fourth dimension is needed to complete all 23 lessons of GENKI?

Can GENKI still be used if the suggested amount of class time is non available?

Content

How many kanji are studied in GENKI?

How many vocabulary terms are studied in GENKI?

Should "Dialogue and Grammer" and "Reading and Writing" be studied at the same step?

What material is contained on the GENKI CD?

I tin't play the audio files on the GENKI CD.

Miscellaneous Questions

What sort of educational activity materials should be used after completing GENKI?

Are at that place whatsoever supplemental resources that y'all recommend?

Revisions in the 2d Edition

What are the main changes to the revised edition?

The second edition has been thoroughly enhanced with various revisions, particularly through the following four major changes.

・A "Civilisation Note" sidebar has been added to each lesson to provide data on Japanese culture.
・The audio material of the original 6-CD sets has been recompiled into MP3 files on a unmarried CD packaged with each textbook and workbook.
・Outdated words and expressions have been replaced with other terms used more frequently in contemporary Japanese.
・The grammer items, practices, and readings take been thoroughly reviewed and enhanced.

For details, see "The New GENKI"

I'chiliad a long-time user of GENKI. Tin can I still utilize the handouts and other classroom material I prepared for the first edition?

Although the second edition has been thoroughly revised, it still retains the offset edition features listed beneath. As a issue, you should exist able to use almost of the classroom material that yous prepared for the first edition, but be sure to carefully check the vocabulary terms for changes.

Lesson themes (Dialogue content)
Overall, the dialogues take the same content as those in the first edition, except that outdated expressions have been replaced with gimmicky alternatives. All audio material has been re-recorded spoken at a speed closer to that of natural conversation.

Grammar items studied in the Dialogue and Grammar section
Every lesson features the same grammar items that information technology covered in the showtime edition. Some changes have been fabricated—such as breaking upwardly a particular item into two separate points, altering the club of items, and adding detailed explanations—just no grammar items take been relocated to a different lesson.

Kanji studied in the Reading and Writing section
The kanji studied in each lesson are exactly the aforementioned as those appearing in the first edition. To enhance student understanding, the vocabulary presented for each character in the kanji list has been augmented with many more words.

Targeted Learners

Who is GENKI designed for?

GENKI is designed for offset learners of Japanese. As the textbooks are divided into ii volumes, students who accept completed roughly 100 hours of study can start with GENKI ii. Since grammer explanations, vocabulary translations and exercise instructions are given in English, users are expected to accept an acceptable agreement of English.

Can GENKI exist used for self-study?

The grammar explanations have been written in apparently English with minimal jargon and then that students can prepare for lessons on their own. Because of this straightforward design, solo learners should have no difficulty in using GENKI for their Japanese studies. However, since many of the exercises involve classroom-oriented work in pairs or larger groups, self-guided learners volition find that having a partner or a tutor will brand their studies more constructive. Besides, the audio material for the second edition (MP3 files on CD) is now bundled with the textbook, so we encourage solo learners to actively use this cloth to increase their opportunity to hear Japanese spoken.

Is GENKI suitable for use in high school classes?

Although GENKI was adult with academy students in mind, it is already being used with success at high schools in the U.s.a.. Loftier school instructors can utilise GENKI finer by adapting their teaching methods to match GENKI with their curriculum, utilizing supplementary resources or incorporating other artistic ideas. The main character in the dialogues is an American academy educatee, but since the story is about her doing a homestay while on a study program in Nippon, the field of study affair will likely be of interest to high school students.

Time Requirements

How much form time is needed to complete all 23 lessons of GENKI?

More often than not speaking, in each lesson six hours should be allotted to the Dialogue and Grammar section, and 3 hours to Reading and Writing, so completion of all 23 lessons should accept approximately 200 hours of class time. (Run into Contents and Time Requirements.)

As a suggested lesson plan for Dialogue and Grammar, the first three or 4 hours should be spent explaining the grammer points, doing the exercises and introducing the new vocabulary. The quaternary or fifth hour should be used for practise focused on the dialogue, and the sixth hour should be used for reinforcement exercises on the overall lesson.

In Reading and Writing, the instructor could employ the offset hr for introducing and practicing the 15 or and so kanji targeted by the lesson, the second hour for going over the reading comprehension passage(s) and the third 60 minutes for kanji and composition writing practice.

At many universities GENKI coursework is paced at 4 or five hours a week for xxx to 32 weeks in a year, so GENKI 1 is used for the beginning twelvemonth, and GENKI 2 for the second. However, this is simply a rough benchmark for course planning. Since the quantity and difficulty of study points and the size of reading passages vary from lesson to lesson, instructors need to recall to match the lesson tempo with the students' speed of acquisition.

Can GENKI all the same be used if the suggested corporeality of class fourth dimension is non bachelor?

As mentioned higher up, the standard allotment of form time in each lesson is half dozen hours for Dialogue and Grammer, and iii hours for Reading and Writing. However, instructors who have less time bachelor can tinker with the lesson structure to make it fit their class schedule. For example, they could have the students study the grammar points at home, and commencement the class off with the exercises. Other ideas include skipping certain exercises or focusing solely on Dialogue and Grammar. The bottom line is that GENKI tin can be used effectively without covering every single part of the textbooks and workbooks; instructors are free to conform the content and their education methods to go with the curriculum.

Content

How many kanji are studied in GENKI?

A total of 317 kanji are studied in the Reading and Writing sections: 145 in GENKI I and 172 in GENKI II. These include 254 of the 284 kanji subject to appear in Level three of the Japanese Linguistic communication Proficiency Test.(Encounter Kanji Introduced in the Reading and Writing Department.)

How many vocabulary terms are studied in GENKI?

Approximately ane,700 terms are covered throughout all 23 lessons. In order that students can immediately put the grammar and expressions they learned into use in real situations, the vocabulary selections are predominantly words frequently used in everyday life. Cleaved downwardly by part of speech, the selections encompass approximately 930 nouns (including pronouns and proper nouns), 360 verbs, 80 i-adjectives, forty na-adjectives and 230 adverbs, adnominals and other expressions.

Should "Dialogue and Grammer" and "Reading and Writing" be studied at the aforementioned pace?

Since the grammar points studied in the Dialogue and Grammer section also appear in Reading and Writing section, the latter should be studied after going over the Dialogue and Grammar section of the aforementioned lesson. However, since both sections are contained of each other in terms of content, information technology is possible to study Reading and Writing at a pace slower than that of Dialogue and Grammar.

What textile is contained on the GENKI CD?

The CD that comes with the textbook contains MP3 files of audio cloth equivalent to that of the showtime edition's separate half dozen-CD ready (approx. half dozen hours). Excluding some vocabulary and practices, the sound material has been re-recorded for the second edition.

Dialogue and Grammar	Dialogue	First fourth dimension at natural speed, 2nd time with a intermission after each judgement.
	Vocabulary	All vocabulary entries and their English language equivalents
	Practice	The exercises marked in the textbook, with their answers
Reading and Writing	Readings	Narration of all reading passages (new addition in the second edition)

The CD that comes with the workbook contains MP3 recordings of the listening comprehension exercises of each workbook lesson.

I can't play the audio files on the GENKI CD.

The audio cloth on the textbook and workbook CDs is formatted in MP3, not the standard audio CD format, and then it cannot exist played on CD players that do not support MP3. To heed to the material, play the files on a figurer or a MP3 player.

→How to use the GENKI CD

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Miscellaneous Questions

What sort of teaching materials should be used after completing GENKI?

GENKI introduces all the basic grammar of showtime Japanese (see Syllabus of the Dialogue and Grammar section), so after completion, the students should advance to an intermediate-level text, such as An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese.

Are there any supplemental resources that you lot recommend?

GENKI Plus: Kanji Await and Larn is a kanji study resource that makes it fun to learn beginning-level kanji based on mnemonic illustrations. It presents 512 kanji, including all 317 covered past the GENKI series. For those who want to boost their understanding of Japanese grammar, we recommend A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammer, which covers 200 grammatical expressions/patterns, their meanings, how to brand sentences with them, and how they differ in usage from similar expressions, while offering numerous case sentences to make learning easier. For details on these resources, visit The Japan Times Publications Section website.