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Teach Yourself Japanese Conversation (Teach Yourself Conversations) [Audiobook] (Audio CD)

by Helen Gilhooly (Author)
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Product details

  • Audio CD
  • Publisher: Teach Yourself (31 Mar 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 034090027X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0340900277
  • Product Dimensions: 18.6 x 13.6 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 333,258 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"I am a big fan of this series. Commercial packaging, simple concept and a competitive price make these well worth trying....One to watch." (The Bookseller )

Product Description
This stand-alone, all-audio course can be used by those who have little or no knowledge of the language, by those who want to learn or brush up basic conversation skills, and by more advanced learners who require extra audio material to complement their current courses.

The ten units or 'conversations' cover the situations you are most likely to find yourself in while on holiday or on business abroad. They are divided into two parts, with a dialogue in each part. The dialogue in Part 2 reuses the vocabulary and phrases from Part 1 in a slightly different context. Both parts start with an introduction to the words and phrases you'll need, followed by the dialogue. Finally it's 'Over to you': you take part in the same dialogues following the English prompts, playing all the roles in turn. So you get lots of opportunity to practise! Frequent track markers divide the CDs up into short, easy-to-use clips.

Vocabulary and phrases in the first two CDs are kept to the basics and are introduced gradually with lots of opportunity to repeat and practise, to improve your confidence in both speaking and understanding. The third CD concentrates on helping you improve your understanding, so that you will be able to hold two-way conversations with people who speak very fast or use words and phrases you do not know.

The course comes on three 75-minute CDs and has an accompanying 48-page booklet which gives the dialogues and the translations of the dialogues, for those who like to see the written word or want additional practice. The Japanese is transliterated into romanized script. The booklet also provides a basic glossary of the words and phrases used.

This is the perfect complement to 'Teach Yourself Japanese' and 'Teach Yourself Beginner's Japanese'.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Not for the faint hearted, 30 Nov 2005
By C. Cross (Tamworth, Staffs United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This course is fine for conversation practise and for polishing exsisting skills but not for the complete beginner.

Japanese words are lengthy and daunting and need to be broken down which is sadly not done here.

The female speaker is fairly indistinct which I'm sure is very authentic but does make it hard to learn new vocabulary. Although the CD claims it's easy to learn in your car the recorded pauses are too short to answer even if you do so immediately after the prompt. Car stereos do not have pause buttons!

On the plus side the CD is well indexed with track markers at the start of each logical section and the course covers the basics in a fairly logical manner with notes on usage and grammar.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great way to learn the devil's language, 31 Aug 2006
Great cd japanese course. Introduces the listener to japanese conversation in a logical and entertaining manner. I like the pace and the style but I do agree with the earlier reviewer though that the publisher should have left longer pauses for one to repeat should be longer - get tired of diving for the pause button all the time. A minor complaint though. I've used Helen Gilhooly's Teach Yourself Japanese script before to read and write japanese, and she's obviously a great teacher. I recommend this course highly.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Simply Wonderful, 24 Oct 2006
By Liz Parry (Orkney, Scotland) - See all my reviews
Forget pages of grammar and lists of verbs. This book does what it says - Teach Yourself Japanese Conversation! Its got lively, fun dialogues and these are realistic ones that you might actually use. Haven't yet get onto cd3, but am enjoying this course very much so far. I give it five stars.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic!
This is an excellent cd course which takes one from the basics to a high level of japanese without meaningless and complicated grammar exercises. Read more
Published on 21 Aug 2006 by Pat

3.0 out of 5 stars A cracker !
I don't understand the negativity of the previous reviewer. i think this cd is fantastic. I don't have time to sit and study from a book but have been playing the cds in my car... Read more
Published on 31 Jul 2006 by phil j

1.0 out of 5 stars Not enough Japanese
I don't agree with the synopsis that this is also for more advanced learners. I am still a beginner but this was like going back to kindergaren - perhaps because of the... Read more
Published on 19 Mar 2006 by Paul Tomlinson

5.0 out of 5 stars Works well
I really like this teaching style. Before each dialogue all the new words are read out and explained, then they're used in the dialogue. Read more
Published on 2 Jan 2006 by VJC

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