Berlitz Japanese: With Book (Japanese Edition) [Audio CD]

Berlitz Guides (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 2831562821 | ISBN-13: 978-2831562827 | Publication Date: March 1999 | Edition: New edition

Completely portable, each pack includes a best-selling Berlitz Phrase Book and audiocassette or CD. Audio components are designed to interact with the Phrase Book, or can be used on their own, in a car or on the go.

Berlitz Cassette/CD Packs feature:
-- One 90-minute cassette or one 75-minute compact disc
-- A corresponding 192- or 224-page, color-coded Berlitz Phrase Book to reinforce skills
-- Audio recordings with native speakers
-- Over 400 recorded essential expressions
-- Up-to-date language, cultural tips, and mini dialogues

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About the Author

In January 2003, the renowned Berlitz Publishing became part of the Langenscheidt Group. The Langenscheidt Publishing Group, the premier group of map and travel companies, offers over 4,000 North American and international street maps, road maps, atlases, language-learning, bilingual dictionaries, and travel-related products covering countries, cities, and languages in every continent.

Product Details

• Audio CD: 224 pages
• Publisher: Berlitz Guides; New edition edition (March 1999)
• Language: Japanese
• ISBN-10: 2831562821
• ISBN-13: 978-2831562827
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 5.7 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.3 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,345,183 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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31 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars don't bother with a CD, January 10, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Berlitz Japanese: With Book (Japanese Edition) (Audio CD)

While the phrasebook itself is rather useful and well-organised(although while I was living in Japan I found Lonely Planet immensely more suitable), the phrases they use on CD are generally useless.

Rather than creating a phrasebook customised for each country, Berlitz decided to make a generic audio-supplement for each language it publishes a phrasebook for, with the same phrases whether it's French, Portuguese or Japanese (they even re-used all English recording from other language CDs ). As a result, you will spend a large amount of time learning how to resolve various hotel and restaurant problems (highly unlikely in Japan), or how to say "keep the change" to a taxi driver (insulting and embarassing him in a process), but none -- on how to check in a ryokan, or what to say while visiting a hot spring.

I would definitely recommend the phrasebook by itself, but give this particular CD version a pass