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Everyday Japanese for Beginners - 400 Actions & Activities

By: Innovative Language Learning LLC
Narrated by: JapanesePod101.com
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Welcome to Everyday Japanese for Beginners - 400 Actions & Activities by Innovative Language.

This audiobook is a new way to learn and speak Japanese fast.

Start speaking in minutes with powerful learning methods that you'll learn inside.

  • Using this audiobook is simple.
  • You'll learn practical phrases for over 400 daily activities through 10 easy chapters.

The phrases were chosen by a panel of professional language teachers and are some of the most frequently used phrases in daily conversation.

Each chapter covers a daily scene such as morning activities, going to work, hanging out with friends, and much more. You'll be able talk about your day easily as you learn practical phrases in every chapter. With each phrase you'll get the audio pronunciation, bonus vocabulary, and more.

Simply listen and repeat out loud.

©2015 Innovative Language Learning, LLC (P)2015 Innovative Language Learning, LLC

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Poor Product

I honestly should have known better than to occur this, since I've bought other recordings from Innovative and JapanesePod101.com. That said I was still disappointed.

The Japanese native speaker is just banging out the words, with no breakdown or help in pronunciation. I'm an intermediate level Japanese language student with basic conversational Japanese skills and i couldn't make out much of what she was saying, if you're a beginner you'll have no chance.

Also there's no pacing or spaced repetition just word after word. No chance to memorize what you've just heard.

If you're a JLPT2 maybe this would be useful, since you're already fluent, otherwise, forget it.

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not for beginners

Unclear audio. Narration rushed and incomprehensible. PDF not available. Customer service apathetic. Will not purchase from this company again.

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Good for vocabulary

If your looking for a book with standard travel vocab this is the book. You may need to pause it and go back and forth but it’s accurate and accountable.

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You get what you pay for I guess...

It's not very useful for learning a new language when some of the words in English weren't recorded properly and you can't hear what the word was, at least it didn't cost much.
For the price, not a bad tool to have in your beginners kit.

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Nice beginner's supplemental guide

As a free book this download is virtually invaluable omoshiroi desu kara, but as purely a beginner's guide this won't do own. With that being said I have not yet purchased the next book in the series so I don't know if it becomes more instructive but this is a "hear and say" book. In my opinion, your ear must be tuned to Japanese at least ⚫⚫⚪⚪⚪⚪ to benefit from this. I would not even call myself a proficient beginner but if you are you should add this to your lessons. In fact, I will also add that if you wosh to be anythong more than a beginning learner, add this to your lesson.

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very useful and easy to learn :)

If you could sum up Everyday Japanese for Beginners - 400 Actions & Activities in three words, what would they be?

fun, useful, easy

What was one of the most memorable moments of Everyday Japanese for Beginners - 400 Actions & Activities?

Help me a lot with expressing myself to my Japanese friends, and writing school reports.

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I love the young voices in this book with are enjoyable to listen.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

I always had problem with constructing simple and usable sentences in Japanese, this book is all about that so for me this is 100% must have in my study collection .

Any additional comments?

I wish there are more chapters in this book, I would like to content for dating, hanging out, school, geeky stuff etc...

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Nice and precise

Just right. To the point. with no Bullshit. More podcasts like this will be great.

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Good review and listening practice

This was a short, but good little listening practice after using Paul Noble's first Japanese course. It's fun to see how much you can understand. As a learning tool, it would be better if the native speaker did a show version of the sentence as well, but as a review we've listening exercise, it was fine.

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Straight forward vocabulary building.

Useful set of daily Japanese words and helpful examples. The examples are also easy listening..

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a great starting place and language learning journ

perfectly pick phrases easily memorized at least for me can't wait to talk about my day with Japanese friends

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