Pimsleur Japanese Level 4 Lessons 6-10

Learn to Speak and Understand Japanese with Pimsleur Language Programs

By: Pimsleur

Narrated by: Pimsleur

Length: 2 hrs and 32 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:

This course includes Lessons 6-10 from the Japanese Level 4 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.

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Better than imagined

I thought the Pimsleur courses would be like other learn-while-listening audio courses. I thought it would just be back and forth, one language and then the translation. I hoped it would be better in that the sentences would be related. This is so much better. Everything is related. You feel like you are quickly progressing even while reviewing.
Pimsleur is now my goto for listening practice.

Oddly Specific, Useless Language

The deeper I get through these, the more of a scam they feel like. The narrator is trying to get us to memorize how to say things like "Mt. Takao was recently designated as a world heritage site" and "have you read The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa", which could only be used in obscure hypothetical conversations that learners will never have. This has been happening since at least as early as the Japanese 2 course, where the narrator is trying to teach you how to say you know sign language or that you volunteer by reading to elderly people.

Strongly displeased with the direction these lessons are going in. Why not teach common nouns, verbs, and adjectives, and basic grammar so we can have a chance at actually speaking Japanese instead of memorizing weird specific phrases?