Learn Japanese: Word Power 101: Absolute Beginner Japanese #1

Japanese: Short Stories for Beginners: 9 Captivating Short Stories to Learn Japanese and Expand Your Vocabulary While Having Fun

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 46 mins)
• By The Language Academy, Hiromi Zeid
• Narrated By Satoko Smith

Are you bored of the traditional methods people tell you to use to learn Japanese? Are you bored of all those dusty grammar books that pile up making everything look so hard? What if we told you there's a better, more enjoyable way to learn Japanese and grow your vocabulary exponentially? Well, guess what - there is! The best way to learn Japanese is by listening to short stories.

Japanese Phase 1, Unit 01-05: Learn to Speak and Understand Japanese with Pimsleur Language Programs

• ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Pimsleur
• Narrated By Pimsleur

Japanese Phase 1, Units 1-5 build on material taught in prior units. 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.

Learn Japanese - Level 1: Introduction to Japanese, Volume 1: Lessons 1-25: Introduction Japanese #1

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Innovative Language Learning
• Narrated By JapanesePod101.com

This audiobook will take you through the basics of Japanese with Basic Bootcamp, All About, and Pronunciation lessons. The five Basic Bootcamp lessons each center on a practical, real-life conversation. At the beginning of the lesson, we'll introduce the background of the conversation. Then, you'll hear the conversation two times: one time at natural native speed, and one time with English translation....

Learn in Your Car: Japanese, the Complete Language Course

• ORIGINAL (9 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Henry N. Raymond
• Narrated By uncredited

Listeners learn pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar of Japanese without the need of a textbook. Level 1: Key words and phrases, basic grammar skills, emphasizes travel needs; Level 2: Expands vocabulary, new grammar concepts, more day-to-day activities; Level 3: Broadens vocabulary base, more advanced grammar skills, enriches conversational ability.

Japanese Phase 1, Units 1-30: Learn to Speak and Understand Japanese with Pimsleur Language Programs

• ORIGINAL (15 hrs and 55 mins)
• By Pimsleur
• Narrated By Pimsleur

Japanese Phase 1, Lessons 1-30 includes 15 hours of spoken language practice and one hour of Culture Notes in thirty, 30-minute lessons. In the first 10 lessons, you’ll cover the basics: saying hello, asking for or giving information or preferences, scheduling a meal or a meeting, asking for or giving basic directions, and much more.

Japanese For Dummies

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs)
• By Eriko Sato
• Narrated By uncredited

This title is not an audio translation of Japanese for Dummies. It is an entirely new product, with an audio-learning focused pedagogy. Japanese for Dummies is a fun and easy way to communicate in a new language. It allows for listeners to learn on their own time and at their own speed and ability.

Learn Japanese - Level 6: Lower Intermediate Japanese, Volume 2: Lessons 1-25: Intermediate Japanese #1

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Innovative Language Learning
• Narrated By JapanesePod101.com

Start speaking Japanese in minutes, and grasp the language, culture and customs in just minutes more with Lower Intermediate - Japanese, a completely new way to learn Japanese with ease! Lower Intermediate - Japanese will have you speaking with proper pronunciation from the very first lesson and arm you with cultural insight and other information to utterly shock and amaze your Japanese friends.

The Foundations of Western Civilization

• ORIGINAL (24 hrs and 54 mins)
• By The Great Courses
• Narrated By Professor Thomas F. X. Noble

What is Western Civilization? According to Professor Noble, it is "much more than human and political geography," encompassing myriad forms of political and institutional structures - from monarchies to participatory republics - and its own traditions of political discourse. It involves choices about who gets to participate in any given society and the ways in which societies have resolved the tension between individual self-interest and the common good.

Japanese Fairy Tales

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 32 mins)
• By Yei Theodora Ozaki
• Narrated By Leslie Bellair
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Here are 22 charming Japanese Fairy Tales, translated by Yei Theodora Ozaki, including "My Lord Bag of Rice", "The Tongue-Cut Sparrow", "The Story of Urashima Taro, the Fisher Lad", "The Farmer and the Badger", "The Shinansha, or the South Pointing Carriage", "The Adventures of Kintaro, the Golden Boy", "The Story of Princess Hase", "The Story of the Man Who Did Not Wish to Die", "The Bamboo-Cutter and the Moonchild", "The Mirror of Matsuyama", and more.

Michel Thomas Beginner Japanese, Lesson 1

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 12 mins)
• By Helen Gilhooly, Niamh Kelly
• Narrated By Helen Gilhooly, Niamh Kelly

The Michel Thomas Method teaches everyday conversational language that will allow you to communicate in a wide variety of situations, empowered by the ability to create your own sentences and use the language instinctively, having absorbed the vocabulary and grammatical structures. These all-audio courses were perfected over 25 years by gifted linguist and teacher Michel Thomas, and provide an accelerated method for language learning that is truly revolutionary.

Learn Japanese: Discover Japanese Culture & Traditions

• ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Innovative Language Learning
• Narrated By JapanesePod101.com

Are you learning Japanese? Knowing more words is one of the best ways to speak and understand more Japanese. And, if you want to sound like a native speaker, you'll need vocab that's relevant to Japanese culture and daily life and that is actually used by Japanese people. With Learn Japanese: Discover Japanese Culture & Traditions by JapanesePod101.com, you learn the must-know vocab and Japanese cultural insights that you won't find in a textbook.

Japanese Phase 2, Units 1-30: Learn to Speak and Understand Japanese with Pimsleur Language Programs

• ORIGINAL (16 hrs)
• By Pimsleur
• Narrated By Pimsleur

Phase 2 includes 15 hours of spoken language practice and one additional hour of Culture Notes, and is designed to be used after completing Phase 1. In the first 10 lessons of Phase 2, you begin to use the past tense. Structures become more complex and informal speech is introduced.