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Pimsleur
Japanese Comprehensive I Course
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Pimsleur
Japanese Comprehensive II Course
30 Lessons
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Pimsleur
Japanese Comprehensive III Course
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Pimsleur
Japanese Basic Course
10 Lessons
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Pimsleur
Japanese Conversational Course
16 Lessons
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The
JAPANESE Language:
Japanese
is a language of uncertain origin. Japanese is spoken by more than
125 million people, most of whom live in Japan. There are also many
speakers of Japanese in the Ryukyu Islands, Korea, Taiwan, parts
of the United States, and Brazil. Japanese appears to be unrelated
to any other language; however, some scholars see a kinship with
the Korean tongue because the grammars of the two are very similar.
Japanese exhibits a degree of agglutination. In an agglutinative
language, different linguistic elements, each of which exists separately
and has a fixed meaning, are often joined to form one word. Japanese
lacks tones, but has a musical accent and usually stresses all syllables
equally. In the 3rd and 4th cent. AD, the Japanese borrowed the
Chinese writing system of ideographic characters. Since Chinese
is not inflected and since Chinese writing is ideographic rather
than phonetic, the Chinese characters do not completely fill the
needs of the inflected Japanese language in the sphere of writing.
In the 8th cent. AD, two phonetic syllabaries, or kana, were
therefore devised for the recording of the Japanese language. They
are used along with the ideogrpahic characters (or kanji
characters) to indicate the syllables that form suffixes and particles.
The direction of writing is usually from top to bottom in vertical
columns and from right to left. The Roman alphabet has also been
used increasingly to transcribe Japanese. The large number of speakers
and the high level of cultural, economic, and political development
of the Japanese people make Japanese one of the leading languages
of the world. |
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The
Pimsleur Method:
With
Pimsleur language courses, you will quickly learn to speak Japanese
and understand it as well. You're not just learning "phrases"
with the Pimsleur method, you're acquiring essential, conversational
language skills! You'll be thrilled to discover you can hold real
conversations in your new language when you have finished the course.
Dr. Pimsleur devoted his life to language
teaching and was one of the world’s leading experts in applied
linguistics. After years of research and development, including
field studies of spoken language training with adults, Dr. Pimsleur
created a new method for self–instruction in spoken languages
that is based on the way the human brain takes in language as speech.
Of the several unique features of the Method, two key principles:
the Principle of Anticipation
and a scientific principle of memory that he called Graduated
Interval Recall This is the only language teaching program which
incorporates these essential principles to provide you with the
most easy–to–do, amazingly rapid, and highly cost–effective
learning method available.
To learn more, click here.
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