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The most effective way to use this course If it’s your first day learning with this course, welcome to Japanese Phonetics with Fumi! And if you’ve been here before, welcome back! I’m glad you chose my course out of the many language resources out there; you won’t regret it! Here’s how you can use it. Whether you are a complete beginner, or already an advanced speaker, I recommend you watch this course from the beginning. In this course, we start from individual sounds, and build up to words, then to full sentences. So if you’re an absolute beginner, don’t worry. We start with how to pronounce each hiragana character. If you’re not a beginner, you might think it’s too slow, but still, I’d like you to watch it from the beginning. The first lesson is Part 1-0: Introduction, and starting here will give you a chance to review what you’ve already learned. You might have missed something along your learning journey or you might have forgotten something. This is a chance to freshen it up. If you think a video is too long, you can stop in the middle and come back later. But you can’t skip the recording section. All the videos have a recording section where you record your voice repeating after me. You need to listen to your speaking and compare it with my speaking. It might be embarrassing for you if you’re not used to hearing your own voice, but this actually makes a difference. You need to get used to listening to yourself speaking Japanese. This is the best way to figure out what you need to improve. And if you have any questions concerning the content of this course, please feel free to ask me on the Forum or send me a message! (fumi@niconico.biz) では、がんばりましょう！！（Now, let’s do our best!）