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Michel Thomas Japanese Advanced Course
Learn another language the way you learnt your own You learnt your own language naturally and now you can learn Japanese in the same way. You'll stick with it because you'll love it Use the unique method perfected over fifty years by the celebrated psychologist and linguist Michel Thomas. This method works with your brain, helping you to build up your Japanese in manageable, enjoyable steps by thinking out the answers for yourself. You learn through listening and speaking without the pressure of writing or memorising. You pick up the language naturally and unforgettably. The NEW Japanese Advanced Course A five-hour, 100% audio method, written by teachers Niamh Kelly and Helen Gilhooly, for taking your Japanese to an advanced level. Join Niamh Kelly, native speaker Mikiko Kurose and two students in a live lesson and within five hours you will be speaking advanced Japanese proficiently and easily. You will rapidly improve your Japanese with the students, hearing both their successes and their mistakes to keep you motivated and involved throughout the course. Join the millions of people worldwide who have learnt a new language with the Michel Thomas Method 4 CDs plus booklet with Japanese phrases in romaji transliteration and English translation
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First published February 27, 2009
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April 23, 2022
Even though the Fundamental Course was excellent, the Advanced one is a lot worse.
The teacher speaks unclearly, everything is rushed, and also hearing 1 of the students making the same basic mistake for the 1000th time might drive you crazy.
The teacher speaks unclearly, everything is rushed, and also hearing 1 of the students making the same basic mistake for the 1000th time might drive you crazy.
November 5, 2016
This covers slightly more advanced material than the first 8 cds. So if you liked those, you'll like this.
A few side comments. Most of the time the teacher has clear English. But there's a part on the 3rd CD where she starts to loosen up and her English accent becomes clear. Not a criticism, just something that happens.
There is still the one student who appears to have learned the material at an alarming superhuman rate and another student who appears to be having difficult with every concept. I believe this is intentional because the listener will feel good about being better than one learner while still aspiring to be as good as the other. So, I guess I'm saying, that I think the two students are in fact nothing of the kind but just a pair of actors who have already learned basic Japanese.
Near the beginning of the first CD the instructor almost seems to lose patience with the students, which is unusual because in the first 8 CDs she seemed to have almost superhuman patience.
The instructor still sometimes misprounces words slightly. She mostly does this when she says a word by itself and then pronounces it correctly when using it in a sentence. A strange sort of error, but one that she probably should try to deal with if working on teaching audio language programs.
By the end of this you will NOT know advance japanese. You will not be able to speak plain Japanese. You will not be able to speak ultra polite japanese. You will only know about 15 verbs, 15 nouns, 8 adjectives. (I say about because I'm not going to count them and the exact numbers don't matter.) You will not know a large number of basic expressions. You will know how to construct sentences that end with -masu. You will know how to construct some basic sentences with -nagara and -te verb forms. You will learn about particles.
You will still be hopelessly confused in a real conversation or while watching any Japanese movies, tv shows, or anime. So, while this might proved a good frame work for starting, it will not be the end of your journey. They could quadruple the length of this, and it still wouldn't be enough to call yourself an intermediate speaker of Japanese.
A few side comments. Most of the time the teacher has clear English. But there's a part on the 3rd CD where she starts to loosen up and her English accent becomes clear. Not a criticism, just something that happens.
There is still the one student who appears to have learned the material at an alarming superhuman rate and another student who appears to be having difficult with every concept. I believe this is intentional because the listener will feel good about being better than one learner while still aspiring to be as good as the other. So, I guess I'm saying, that I think the two students are in fact nothing of the kind but just a pair of actors who have already learned basic Japanese.
Near the beginning of the first CD the instructor almost seems to lose patience with the students, which is unusual because in the first 8 CDs she seemed to have almost superhuman patience.
The instructor still sometimes misprounces words slightly. She mostly does this when she says a word by itself and then pronounces it correctly when using it in a sentence. A strange sort of error, but one that she probably should try to deal with if working on teaching audio language programs.
By the end of this you will NOT know advance japanese. You will not be able to speak plain Japanese. You will not be able to speak ultra polite japanese. You will only know about 15 verbs, 15 nouns, 8 adjectives. (I say about because I'm not going to count them and the exact numbers don't matter.) You will not know a large number of basic expressions. You will know how to construct sentences that end with -masu. You will know how to construct some basic sentences with -nagara and -te verb forms. You will learn about particles.
You will still be hopelessly confused in a real conversation or while watching any Japanese movies, tv shows, or anime. So, while this might proved a good frame work for starting, it will not be the end of your journey. They could quadruple the length of this, and it still wouldn't be enough to call yourself an intermediate speaker of Japanese.
May 29, 2022
Similar to the foundation, it is not actually advanced, that's just how they market their audio courses. This is actually foundation - extra lessons. These are not as good or as informative as the previous ones though.
Again, one of the students is struggling and it seems like the tutors did not help them enough outside of recordings, but one of the reviews points out it might be intentionally to actually make it seem like a real class; one person that is really good and one that it not.. I am not sure about that, it did not seem like acting, but it could be.
The tutor actually changes for this one, it is not Helen Gihooly, but Niamh Kelly, she is somewhat more terse with the students.
Again, one of the students is struggling and it seems like the tutors did not help them enough outside of recordings, but one of the reviews points out it might be intentionally to actually make it seem like a real class; one person that is really good and one that it not.. I am not sure about that, it did not seem like acting, but it could be.
The tutor actually changes for this one, it is not Helen Gihooly, but Niamh Kelly, she is somewhat more terse with the students.
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