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Title: Japanese I by Pimsleur ISBN: 0-7435-2353-9 Publisher: Pimsleur Intl Inc Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 Format: Audio CD Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $345.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.36
Rating: 5
Summary: Much better than any other program...
Comment: I know it's expensive - buy the 4 lesson cd/cassette starter set first. You will be buying the beginning 4 lessons twice but you'll know exactly what your getting.
I have 4 other programs: Living Language, Rosseta Stone,
Instant Immersion, Transparent Language - as well as a dozen books on learning Japanese - trying to learn from them has been torture compared to Pimsleur.
Japanese (and Korean & Chinese) is twice as hard to learn because the are written with characters instead of the alphabet.
You can't sound out words. I recommend you pickup a few Romanji books - which are Japanese words written alphabetically - a good one is "Japanese in 10 minutes a day".
The biggest advantage of the Pimsleur system is that you will learn to understand Japanese spoken at full speed. Other methods have you build a vocabulary then go on to grammar so you memorize and memorize and then you are asked a question in normal everyday Japanese and are lost - after all, do you speak "proper" English all the time?
Rating: 5
Summary: a few tips
Comment: I'm currently using Pimsleur to learn Japanese and Cantonese, and I'm thrilled with my progress. Pimsleur has a truly effective system for learning language painlessly and effectively.
I've noticed, though, that on many Pimsleur reviews here on Amazon, people say they needed to listen to each tape 4-5 times before they felt they knew the material. Fortunately, that's not necessary. Here's how to make equal progress on just one listening: Each time you're prompted to come up with an answer on your own, *stop the tape* and give yourself time to think before you get interrupted by the soundtrack. If the tape gives you the answer before you've come up with an answer yourself, you haven't learned anything.
Rating: 5
Summary: It Serves It's Purpose
Comment: I'm 16 years old, I'm homeschooled, and I've been studying Japanese for 2 years right now. I was weary about such an expensive audio CD course for Japanese, but I gave it a try, and the conclusion I can draw is that it does what it's meant to do. An introduction (Level 1 of 3, so you can't expect deep coverage) of Japanese that starts you on your quest to Japanese mastery, or gives you a *really* good basic overview of the Japanese language.
As you've probably already read, each lesson is about 30 minutes long, and you should try to listen to one lesson a day. How did I do it? I sat in a room and concentrated on the lesson (I also cleaned the house frequently). Would I do just as well if I were focusing on driving in addition to listening to an audio course? I don't know. But I got it to work really good for me, and this mainly has to do with one's own circumstances, not the quality of the material itself.
If you have trouble on a lesson, just listen to the same one again (the same day, if you have the time), listen to it again the next day before you move on to the next lesson. I did this, and I felt I benefited greatly from this.
I finished Japanese I, and I am currently studying one lesson of Pimsleur Japanese II a day, and I'm on lesson 20. It's still working great, I'm listening to the audio lessons in addition to my regular studies. I plan to get Pimsleur Japanese III as I finish Japanese II.
To sum it up:
Pimsleur is the BEST audio-language learning company, period. Audio-language-learning courses and companies are never going to be perfect. They will almost always lack in one way or another. There has yet to be made the *perfect* language-audio course, but this is as close as you can get.
A great introduction to Japanese, and it is a GREAT (I mean, GREAT) boost if you're studying this in addition to regular study of Japanese.
(I felt that Japanese I was good enough that I just got my Pimsleur German I today.)
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Title: Japanese II by Pimsleur ISBN: 067131548X Publisher: Pimsleur Intl Inc Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $345.00 |
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Title: Japanese III by Pimsleur Language Programs ISBN: 0671315498 Publisher: Pimsleur Intl Inc Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $345.00 |
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Title: Kanji Pict-o-Graphix : Over 1,000 Japanese Kanji and Kana Mnemonics by Michael Rowley ISBN: 0962813702 Publisher: Stone Bridge Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1992 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Remembering the Hiragana/Katakana: A Complete Course on How to Teach Yourself by James W. Heisig, Helmut Morsbach, Kazue Kurebayashi, Kazue Kurebayashe ISBN: 4889960724 Publisher: Kodansha International Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Remembering the Kanji: A Complete Course on How Not to Forget the Meaning and Writing of Japanese Characters by James W. Heisig ISBN: 4889960759 Publisher: Japan Publications Trading Company Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $42.00 |
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