Product Details

• Directors: Joe Mefford
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: The Travel Linguist Inc.
• DVD Release Date: February 6, 2006
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000EHPXMO
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #301,895 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars very helpful, September 4, 2006

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mka9 (USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Japanese 101 (Learn to Speak Japanese with The Travel Linguist) (DVD)

This DVD has phrases which are broken into five sections: greetings, directions, dining, shopping, and safety. I thought people would be shown using the phrases in various situations, but it was recorded in a studio. After they say a phrase, the written English and Japanese appears (one in kanji/hiragana/katakana and the other in romanji).

As a beginner, I'm finding this DVD very helpful since the written and spoken versions of sentences appear together. (I wish the Pimsleur language program came with written material.)

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Japanese 101, October 11, 2007

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J. Chan - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Japanese 101 (Learn to Speak Japanese with The Travel Linguist) (DVD)

The dvd is great for beginners who want to review the Japanese language , and refresh your memory on the language. It been sometime I have taken Japanese and I found it helpful.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Japanese 01, August 25, 2007

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Cynthia Hoskin "Traveller" (California, KY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Japanese 101 (Learn to Speak Japanese with The Travel Linguist) (DVD)

This is a pared down version, and the DVD is full of ads for the full version. There are no comprehensible instructions, and the lessons are confusing. I just went in loops, with the same words being thrown at me over and over and then warnings that I had not completed the full lesson. One module said there were 16 words, but in a half hour I could only make four come up. Whew!