Jalup Situations Beginner
Have you been learning hundreds or thousands of sentences from Jalup Beginner? You get them. You understand them. You’ve made them yours. But when you step out into the real world you may feel you don’t have enough practice. You haven’t gotten enough listening outside of the Beginner decks. You’ve never been in a situation where you will use what you’ve learned. You need to put yourself in more actual Japanese situations.
Enter Jalup Situations
Take just the Japanese you’ve learned from Beginner, and without any outside knowledge, have real, meaningful conversations.
Jalup Situations provides you with situations in which you would have a somewhat lengthy talk with someone. Each situation is around 10 to 12 sentences long, and is something that you would speak all by yourself, covering a specific topic.
Similar to Jalup Stories – Beginner, every single word comes form the Jalup Beginner series, so this is an excellent way to practice and confirm everything you’ve learned, in a whole new way. It also will show you that just having those 1,000 cards under your belt opens you up to a wide range of possibilities. Thought you were just learning grammar? Of course not. You are ready for a number of common situations:
Stage 1
1. A decent sized self-introduction
2. My family
3. Likes and dislikes
4. School life
5. My job
6. My daily diary
7. Being sick
8. My dream
9. Something good that happened to me lately
10. A phrase I find very useful
11. A strange personal hobby
Stage 2
1. Work environment
2. My company
3. Having a complex
4. Difficult and easy to do
5. Hanging with friends
6. Sharing your opinion
7. Japanese study
8. My dog
9. Time
10. Tokyo
What’s inside Jalup Situations?
● Each stage has 10 or 11 full situation audio files (each around 10-12 sentences long)
● In each stage, the situations are also then broken down into 120 (Stage 1) and 101 (Stage 2) audio files of single sentence audio
● PDF/Excel/Word file of all the sentences found in the situations
To add to this, I’m offering a new Anki audio deck format. One of the things I’m aware of about Jalup Beginner, is that since the front of the card tests you on your ability to read and pronounce the sentence, your listening ability doesn’t grow as fast. While you hear the card on the back, you are never tested on it.
The Jalup Situations Anki decks will solely test you on your ability to hear and understand each sentence, without any visual aid. The front of the card is the audio. The back of the card is the Japanese sentence. This should provide a much needed boost to your early listening ability.
● Audio Anki deck – Stage 1 (120 cards), Stage 2 (101 cards)
Support Included
Having a problem? Puzzled about a word or sentence? Ask me about it by e-mail.
Equip Yourself
● Buy Jalup Situations Beginner: Stage 1 – Stage 2 – $14.99 each
*Need more Jalup Beginner practice? Don’t forget to check out Jalup Stories – Beginner as well!
Refunds
Didn’t like it? Send an e-mail within 30 days after purchasing and ask for a 100% refund.
Get into a situation
Let Japanese become more real for you.
Founder of Jalup. iOS Software Engineer. Former attorney, translator, and interpreter. Still watching 月曜から夜ふかし weekly since 2013.
Wow. This is exactly what I’ve been wanting. Now I can listen and shadow these situations, and check to make sure I’ve understood them with the written Japanese. I love it!
Shadowing is the way to go!
This sounds really interesting! Looking forward to trying this out, I could definitely use it.
I hope you like it :)
Even though I’m already past the Beginner Deck and have consumed the Jalup Stories more times that i’d like to admit I still found this useful! Thanks! :D And finally some audio lol
I’m happy to hear that I could expand your audio a bit. Enjoy them.
I think this will be really useful. Thanks!
I definitely hope so!
Thank you! Can’t wait for intermediate stories and situations.
I’ll eventually get around to those too.
This is great! Even toward the end of expert this is going to be really useful.
A little extra native listening practice never hurts.
So far I am a big fan of it. Until this came out, I had never found anything with content that I was 100% familiar with. Even though I am currently working on expert, I know that with this Jalup Situations I will be able to internalize more of the basic grammar I am still struggling with to my professor’s dismay.
Thanks Chase. You’ll eventually blow your professor away with your knowledge once you can output it all.
Will this come to Jalup Next? I don’t really touch Anki anymore.
This isn’t really an “Anki” product, as it is a listening product. The Anki deck is more of an afterthought to the actual listening practice created through the audio files.
Yes, I’d also like to see this on Jalup Next.
I have had a chance to learn a few cards now, and I really love that the speaker holds nothing back. This is full native speed with all the quirks that come with it. I had to listen too いい人
about 10 times before I could hear the same thing I was reading. This will be great for systematically filling the gaps in my comprehension.
Looking forward to Intermediate! ;)
For listening practice like this, gotta keep the language speed as real as possible!
For me, the だけ in 映画だけ was difficult for me to pick up. I kept hearing it as something else, as well as as the で in あることで.
I also find that this is great review for Jalup Beginner, as those reviews are being pushed further and further out in my review schedule. I also like getting to see the same words and grammar in different sentence formations. My reactions are like, “What?! I can do that?!” It’s fun.
Thank you Adam. This is really good stuff. Do you have plans for more?
Yes, I definitely do. I’m seeing if it is possible to fit in a Jalup Situations Beginner – Part 2 (if there is enough variety of sentences to create more unique situations), or just go directly to Jalup Situations Intermediate.
I think it would be a fantastic idea. You could even implement some stuff from the Intermediate Deck to make the transition to Intermediate even smoother. That way these decks can almost as ‘pre-intermediate’ bridge to the intermediate deck.
Would be great. Learning to listen is very difficult and this is great practice.
Great to see stage 2 so soon. Stage 1 has really helped me. The structured Anki approach works surprisingly well for listening. Looking forward to Intermediate already!
I enjoyed stage 1 so I’ll buy stage 2 the soonest chance I get!
These are perfect for writing practice. Since the front of the card is blank, there is no ‘accidental’ cheating.