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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,
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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 |
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Berlitz Japanese: With Book (Japanese Edition) by Berlitz Guides (Audio CD - Mar. 1999)
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