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Comments on: About Liana https://joechip.net/extensivereading Working towards 三国志, one picture book at a time Fri, 13 Mar 2015 03:18:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.9 By: Jen https://joechip.net/extensivereading/about-liana/#comment-108590 Fri, 13 Mar 2015 03:18:41 +0000 https://joechip.net/extensivereading/?page_id=9#comment-108590 I just wanted to say thanks for your blog, it is really, really useful for me!

]]> By: Christine https://joechip.net/extensivereading/about-liana/#comment-59438 Thu, 06 Mar 2014 17:34:01 +0000 https://joechip.net/extensivereading/?page_id=9#comment-59438 Liana,
Forgot to ask you. Do you recommend learning the 2000 joyo kanji first, and then starting to do extensive reading? Or would you recommend learning the couple of hundred Kanji at each grade level and then getting into extensive reading for that grade level–something like the graded reader? I feel like tackling the 2000 joyo kanji in one shot means that it will not be as useful when actually starting to read because there’s a chance the kanji will not register in my mind because the only time I would have seen it is during the “memorization” period?
Thanks!

]]> By: Christine https://joechip.net/extensivereading/about-liana/#comment-59435 Thu, 06 Mar 2014 17:23:55 +0000 https://joechip.net/extensivereading/?page_id=9#comment-59435 I really love your site. Thank you so much for a great resource for becoming better at reading in Japanese. I was not aware of this practice of “extensive reading”. But it makes a lot of sense. It’s been so long since I “studied” English since it is not first language/not spoken at home but having studied it since elementary school, high school when all the vocab/grammar is taught I’ve forgotten how much actually went into becoming fluent in English. I must have read hundreds of books and written thousands of sentences before being able to read English at the speed I read at now. I think by focusing on volume of reading without being bogged down with the dictionary means subconsciously, your brain gets used to seeing the same things over and over. The initial hardships in understanding grammar/sentence structure or colloquialisms diminish..and then the dictionary can be used to learn new words.

]]> By: Duong Thi Mai Huong https://joechip.net/extensivereading/about-liana/#comment-56173 Tue, 21 Jan 2014 00:14:39 +0000 https://joechip.net/extensivereading/?page_id=9#comment-56173 I am very happy to read yuor blog. I am studying in Victoria university for a M-TESOL. I am doing research about ER so I would be very gradeful if you can share with me some information about this

]]> By: Amity https://joechip.net/extensivereading/about-liana/#comment-55680 Sun, 12 Jan 2014 23:55:41 +0000 https://joechip.net/extensivereading/?page_id=9#comment-55680 I used this method instinctively between my first and second years of college French and became a very fluent reader very rapidly. I’ve been using it in a very, very sporadic way for Japanese after two years of college classes from which I took away frustratingly little. My favorite books are the Yotsubato series by Azuma Kiyohiko, and I just discovered Kagaku no tomo, which led me to your blog. It’s great to see this method outlined, however basically, as an official and legitimate approach to language learning. I’m very definitely still having difficulty with Level 1 texts, but after looking at your blog, I’m hopeful that if I step my reading up a notch, there’s hope for eventual fluency.

]]> By: 優子 https://joechip.net/extensivereading/about-liana/#comment-47434 Mon, 21 Oct 2013 20:51:48 +0000 https://joechip.net/extensivereading/?page_id=9#comment-47434 はじめまして。色々調べている中で、こちらのサイトにたどりつきました。
日本語の本をたくさん読んでおられるようなので、少しでもお手伝いが出来ないかと思い、メッセージを書いています。私は、カナダにて、日本語の中古絵本の販売をしています。取り扱っているのは、0歳児から小学生を対象にした本です。まだまだはじめたばかりで本の数はあまり多くありませんが（現在100冊ちょっと）、これから少しずつ増やしていく予定です。サイトは日本語ですが、来年、英語とフランス語のサイトも作ろうと考えているところです。よかったらサイトをのぞいてみて下さいね。
Lianaさんや他の日本語に興味をお持ちの方のお役に立てれば幸いです。

]]> By: Liana https://joechip.net/extensivereading/about-liana/#comment-689 Sun, 14 Aug 2011 02:14:49 +0000 https://joechip.net/extensivereading/?page_id=9#comment-689 I just realized you posted this on the “about liana” page and not on the interview, so I added it to the interview itself. Thank you for answering! :)

]]> By: さかい@tadoku.org https://joechip.net/extensivereading/about-liana/#comment-542 Fri, 29 Jul 2011 10:35:32 +0000 https://joechip.net/extensivereading/?page_id=9#comment-542 1) Why Japanese teachers of English are the hardest to convince about the merits of tadoku.

This is a big topic which would need a few thousand words if discussed in full, so let me just enumerate some of the problems teachers have with tadoku.

* Teachers of English are the hardest nuts to crack because they have semi-instinctive resistance to tadoku, which is against everything they have believed in all along: use of a dictionary, translation into Japanese, vocab building through sheer memorization, focus on grammar, evaluation by tests and exams, among other things.
* They think they are proficient in English thanks to the conventional methods described above, and they expect their students to follow their own steps. We all know the kind of disaster that results, don’t we?
* Most teachers blame students for not achieving the proficiency they think they themselves have reached. Very few think that it’s not the students but the conventional methods that are at fault.
* So, tadoku is only accepted by teachers who have tried everything in their arsenal and have seen no visible improvement in their students.

Liana, do send me further questions re my answers above, ok?

Answers to your other questions will follow.

]]> By: Liana https://joechip.net/extensivereading/about-liana/#comment-421 Mon, 04 Jul 2011 22:40:19 +0000 https://joechip.net/extensivereading/?page_id=9#comment-421 Thank you, I hope you find it helpful! ^^

]]> By: Bob https://joechip.net/extensivereading/about-liana/#comment-414 Sun, 03 Jul 2011 12:44:49 +0000 https://joechip.net/extensivereading/?page_id=9#comment-414 Lianna, Thank you for putting this blog together. I looks like an excellent resource for all levels. Being able to find different levels of books online is very helpful.

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