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Japanese 101 (Learn to Speak Japanese with The Travel Linguist)

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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.)

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.

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!

Product came prompted but didn't receive a phrasebook as stated on the dvd. Which was kind of a bummer.