Customer Reviews

Japanese: Level 2: Learn In Your Car

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Really enjoyed this tape series. Have studied in school for years and have lived in Japan for a year and am always looking for (inexpensive) ways to keep up my Japanese. The format and content was just right. Also learned new vocabulary, as well. Level 3 was even better for me but this was also good.

There is an art to making a language learning course interesting and engaging. The art was lost on this course although it still does a decent job of teaching with lots of repetition.

I'm preparing for my trip back to Japan, and thought these tapes would help me remember what I was fluent in as a child, so I skipped the first edition.

I listened to level 2 tapes a few times, and after not recognizing the words they were saying, and then realizing they were using phrases I'd never use, for example "i am not your friend", I figured out I bought the wrong tapes.

The phrases are said in English first, and then in Japanese, but the Japanese is so fast that you don't have a chance to mimic the sentence, and if you do, you don't know how to break down the meaning of each part of the sentence. Maybe I should have bought level 1, but I really don't think I need to learn how to say things they were trying to teach.

I bought the 1993 version of Henry N. Raymond's cassettes, but I'm not sure the current version is any different!

I've since found a great book for beginners called Japanese in 10 Minutes a Day. It is easy to learn, fun, and really does take 10 minutes a day!