Pimsleur Japanese Level 1 Lessons 1-5

Learn to Speak and Understand Japanese with Pimsleur Language Programs

By: Pimsleur

Narrated by: Pimsleur

Length: 2 hrs and 43 mins

Publisher's summary

The easiest and fastest way to learn Japanese

With Pimsleur you’ll become conversational in Japanese - to understand and be understood - quickly and effectively. You’ll learn vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation together through conversation. And our scientifically proven program will help you remember what you’ve learned, so you can put it into action.

Why Pimsleur?

• Quick and easy: only 30 minutes a day.
• Portable and flexible: core lessons can be done anytime, anywhere, and easily fit into your busy life.
• Proven method: works when other methods fail.
• Self-paced: Go fast or go slow - it’s up to you.
• Based in science: developed using proven research on memory and learning.
• Cost-effective: less expensive than classes or immersion, and features all native speakers.
• Genius: triggers your brain’s natural aptitude to learn.
• Works for everyone: recommended for ages 13 and above.

What’s included?

• Five 30-minute audio lessons, all featuring native speakers

What you’ll learn

With this newest edition of Japanese, we reflect the general trend toward casual interaction and have updated vocabulary and structures.

This course includes Lessons 1-5 from the Japanese Level 1 program featuring 2.5 hours of language instruction. Each lesson provides 30 minutes of spoken language practice, with an introductory conversation and new vocabulary and structures. Detailed instructions enable you to understand and participate in the conversation. Practice for vocabulary introduced in previous lessons is included in each lesson. The emphasis is on pronunciation and comprehension and on learning to speak Japanese.

Whether you want to travel, communicate with friends or colleagues, reconnect with family, or just understand more of what’s going on in the world around you, Pimsleur will help you learn Japanese, expand your horizons, and enrich your life.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

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Great for building confidence

I took these lessons slower than suggested, but I have been able to hold conversations with my coworkers who have been learning Japanese for over a year in a little less than 1 month! Excited to learn more

I think it’s useful

A lot of repetition.
Some common phrases. I could see these being useful if you traveled to Japan before.
I’ve both traveled and learned in college. It will help your studies in terms of pronunciation and understanding language structure. In terms of travel, it’s better than using a guide book. It commits to memory a little because you’re speaking it out, like speaking to a live person—it’s best to keep practicing if that’s the goal.
Moving onto the next lessons after this!

SO EASY

I have put off learning the language because all other apps and books I've tried have been so confusing. I never thought it could be so easy!!! It's repeating and repetitiveness that makes this a snap. Definitely worth trying out for yourself.

Best of all I've tried

If all you're looking for it is to be able to speak and understand the language, this is the best. By repeating and speaking everything out loud it all tends to stick much better. I just listen to it on my 25 min drive to and from work and within two months have completed all of level 1 and moving on to level 2 by repeating each lesson 3-4 times and not moving on until I can readily answer each prompt without too much thought. Level 1 covers most of the basics you would need to travel to Japan such as asking people if they understand English, ordering food, asking for directions and understanding the directions given, some family members, locations you or other people live, numbers up to several hundred and a fair amount more. I'm very much looking forward to level 2.

Subarashii! Check it out!

Compared to other audio lessons, the enunciation is profoundly better. The speakers are clear and the repetition makes it a much smaller task to retain. This is the most reliable Japanese audio lesson series I've come across.

Fantastic

Fantastic and fun way to learn Japanese. I have to repeat the each lesson a couple of times but it works!

This was better than private lessons

I was taking private lessons for a few months because I have a summer job in Japan, I was not remembering anything. I started Pimsleur and wow what a difference. I actually stopped my private lessons because I was retaining and learning more practical uses from the Pimsleur program.