TeLL me More Japanese - Beginner, Intermediate & Advanced

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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: 1.2 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: 2749004373
• Item model number: 5-007-1
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 2, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,994 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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Product Description

Product Description

TELL ME MORE is the world's leading software for language learning with more than 5 million users worldwide. Developed in collaboration with the Japanese Institute of Languages, the TeLL me More collection is the first Japanese language learning method based on speech recognition. With transcriptions in Rômaji (the Latin alphabet) TeLL me More Japanese covers all the essentials of learning the language: command of the principal characters (Kanji and Kana), comprehension, pronunciation, written expression and grammar. This package includes levels Beginner, Intermediate & Advanced. It includes 300 HOURS OF LEARNING WITH MORE THAN 1,500 EXERCISES AND 25 DIFFERENT ACTIVITIES, such as word association, sentence pronunciation. Learn Chinese with Interactive Dialogues and Cultural Videos (Over 1,000 sentences related to themes taken from daily life). Also includes key grammar and conjugation points. 4,000 words Audio-glossary. Using state of the art speech recognition, with the help of the voice graph and pitch curve, you can improve your pronunciation and intonation. Phonetic exercises and 3D animations will also facilitate learning the correct pronunciation of the Japanese phonemes. With S.E.T.S (Spoken Error Tracking System), TELL ME MORE points out pronunciation errors within a sentence. Track your progress with the Lesson Report. Free headset with microphone and Japanese language and culture: an introductory manual.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	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

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	E. Ramos "Take from them everything, give the... (Arizona) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

7 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't buy it don't buy it don't buy it, June 12, 2006

By	Anne Dudfield (Cambridge, MA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I have a slightly different version (DELUXE v2.0), but reading one of the reviews, it looks like there are no appreciable differences. Fortunately for me, it was cheap.

My main complaint is the terrible interface. It's impossible to figure out where to begin. You try doing the "dialogue", and it starts talking at you in japanese and asks you to pick an appropriate response, which is impossible unless you have already studied Japanese enough to understand what they are saying. The other modes are similar. There is a "Reference" mode, which rushes through all of the grammatical rules way too fast for you to actually learn anything. You can't even look anything up unless you already know how to write and read the Japanese character sets. It doesn't show the romanzied version of words. There's a non-functional "Video" icon in my version too.

So it won't work for beginners because it doesn't actually teach you anything. MAYBE if you already knew some Japanese and wanted to test your knowledge, it would be good. I was hoping it would help me integrate knowledge of written with spoken Japanese, but that doesn't seem to be working out. Oh well. At least I didn't pay $175 for it.