| Interested in learning Japanese? There are a heap | | | | any of the 3 Japanese scripts then you'll have to |
| of courses to learn from, some better than | | | | look elsewhere, but nobody beats Pimsleur at |
| others. Here are the 4 that you should consider | | | | what it sets out to do; get you speaking |
| for your Japanese learning journey. | | | | Japanese fast. That said, Pimsleur Japanese is |
| #1 Tell Me More Japanese | | | | criminally expensive and so is out of reach for |
| The Tell Me More series are a fairly recent entry | | | | most people, but if it's in your budget and you |
| in the language learning arena, with their major | | | | only want to speak Japanese, then Pimsleur is for |
| breakthrough being voice recognition software, | | | | you. |
| which has been picked up by other courses. Tell | | | | #3 Rosetta Stone Japanese |
| Me More Japanese claims to have over 300 hours | | | | The Rosetta Stone Japanese learning software |
| of content which would make it one of the | | | | suite, like Pimsleur, is one of the most popular |
| biggest courses around. While I don't know if it | | | | solutions around in learning Japanese. It's quite |
| really did have that much, I definitely got bang for | | | | similar to the Tell Me More Japanese learning |
| my buck. Drawbacks are that the Tell Me More | | | | software series in that it has voice recognition |
| Japanese learning software is not at all for | | | | software and a large amount of content. |
| beginners and the interface can be fairly confusing. | | | | Drawbacks to Rosetta Stone are the price (not |
| #2 Pimsleur Japanese | | | | as bad as Pimsleur, but still out of reach to most |
| Pimsleur is for many people the gold standard of | | | | people) lack of cultural sensitivity when it comes |
| language learning, and is based on how the human | | | | to explaining WHY things are as they are in |
| memory absorbs information. Being an audio only | | | | Japanese, and you are taught somewhat formal |
| course, if you hope to learn how to read or write | | | | means of expression. |