A Japanese Reader: Graded Lessons for Mastering the Written Language Roy Andrew Miller
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing

May 20, 2014 - Students in the standard French class scored better on reading and writing tests, so both methods clearly have merit. Mar 13, 2014 - I tried again in 8th grade. Later on, I took four years of Spanish classes. Apr 23, 2012 - Attending a Japanese language institute in Japan. The 5 Keys to Mastering Body Language. Cursive is not generally taught after the third grade (my penmanship class was in the 7th grade; maybe its just coincidence, but the 7th grade was when I was magically transformed from a poor student into an exceptional student). I mean, most people just aren't good at learning languages, right? I decided I wasn't a “language person” and gave up. Jun 11, 2010 - Follow it up with something like A Japanese Reader: Graded Lessons for Mastering the Written Language (Tuttle Language Library) (another somewhat-dated but excellent book), which covers a much fuller set. Is there more to language learning than just speaking and listening / reading and writing? In fact, most people I know here who speak any decent level of Japanese, especially Chinese and Korean people, have attended similar schools. I took $5/hour lessons in Japanese via Skype and often start learning with just a $5 phrase book. The brain's “reading circuit” of linked regions that are activated during reading was activated during hand writing, but not during typing.