TeLL me More Japanese - Beginner, Intermediate & Advanced [Old Version]

by Auralog

Product Features

• Japanese language software with 300+ hours of learning
• Teaches Kana alphabets and 1,000+ basic Kanji characters
• Covers writing, grammar, reading, listening, speaking, and more
• 1,500+ exercises; interactive dialogues; speech recognition technology
• Contains levels Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: 2749004373
• Item model number: 5-007-1
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 2, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,785 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #53 in Software > Education & Reference > Foreign Languages > Asian

Product Description

TeLL me More® Japanese language learning software (Beginner-Intermediate-Advanced) 300 hours of Japanese learning 1500 exercises 21 activities and 8000 word audio glossary. System Requirements:PC or compatible: Pentium® Windows® 95/98 16 MB RAM 90 MB available on hard disk 4 X CD-ROM drive 16-bit Windows®-compatible sound card 640 x 480 256-colour graphics card headset or speakers and microphone (free headset and microphone is included)Windows® 95 and NT4 require Microsoft® Internet Explorer 4 or more. Format: WIN 9598MENT2000XP Genre: LANGUAGE UPC: 893416001576 Manufacturer No: 5-007-1

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for my classes and students, March 23, 2006

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Tomoko Yokota - See all my reviews

I am a Japanese teacher at a community college and use this software TeLL me More in my classes. I also recommend it to my students as I believe it is very well structured and the only good software out there. Also, I happen to be Japanese and feel pretty confident talking English, I was very shocked why the other review mentions that Japanese people cannot talk English as I believe I am succesful at doing it, so immersion works!
Also, the speech recognition works great, it can even tell you within a sentence which word you did not pronounce right. I use that part as a a complement of my classes, having all my students sit down in the lab and pronounce the words. Overall, it is a great learning tool

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars It does only a few things well, January 11, 2011

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Fujiarmu - See all my reviews

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This review is from: TeLL me More Japanese - Beginner, Intermediate & Advanced [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

I had been studying Japanese for a while at the time that I bought this program. The reason I got it originally was to use it in improving those parts of the language I had trouble with, which was mostly listening comprehension and talking speed. While it seems to have helped some in this regard (though the fact is that you must eventually speak with actual people to improve this beyond beginner level), I find this software to be lacking in most capacities.
Here is a summation of my experience:
Pro -
Voice recognition seems to work reasonably well.
The program forces you to read lines and pronounce words with swiftness and accuracy (more or less) before giving you a mark of approval.
The puzzles are sometimes entertaining (though who said a language was supposed to be fun to learn).
The program goes up to an intermediate level of Japanese (the point where you start needing to look at materials beyond textbooks).
There is quite a bit of useful vocabulary and some interesting videos.

Cons -
The program seems to be a bit buggy. It won't work on Windows 7 unless run in compatibility mode and it has sometimes failed to play the voice recording while in a vocal exercise.
The program is poorly arranged, so a beginning student without some idea of where to start would probably be lost.
The user will undoubtedly need supplemental instruction.

In summary, this is not a very good program in my opinion. There are much better ways to learn Japanese and I would recommend putting the money one might spend on this program towards taking a class and picking up some good instructional books and audio CDs.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Software, but the navigation is strange, February 28, 2007

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E. Ramos "Take from them everything, give the... (Arizona) - See all my reviews
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Overall, I liked the software and felt as if I learned a little from it. Although upon starting the software, I was confused as far as where I should start. It give me no indication of what I should do in order or how to proceed.