| | |  | Translation | Home » » Learn Japanese Now! | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | Learn From Exciting Content and Interactive Activities - Learn Japanese Now! is a revolutionary language-learning tool based on the proven Transparent Method of learning how to use a language in context through rich multimedia activities. Learn Japanese Now! unites industry-leading tools with authentic, native multimedia content to make learning fast, fun, and effective. Big Video Screen - Just select one of the interesting articles or stories and click to explore the Japanese language. View Japanese language videos complete with the sites and sounds of real people speaking and interacting in Japanese. Or jump directly into exciting interactive games, pronunciation-improving practice or invigorating conversations. Determine your own learning pace by deciding when you need translation-and when you don't. All the tools you need to quickly master a language are instantly available in Learn Japanese Now! Interactive Conversational Practice - Practice your lines using the prompts and the integrated speech features, then record your voice and replay the whole conversation with the lines you've recorded. It's a terrific way to get valuable real-world experience using your new language. In no time, you'll be conditioned to respond correctly without thinking about it, just like you do in English. Before You Know It - The revolutionary software that teaches you words and phrases so you know them cold - with Perfect Recall - is now integrated right into Learn Japanese Now! You get: * Quick launch of BYKI from within Learn Japanese Now! * Companion BYKI lists to use with immersion content * Dozens of bonus lists from BYKI Deluxe * The ability to create custom BYKI lists (complete with native speaker sound) from any of the 15,000 words in Learn Language Now! MP3 Learning on Your iPod or Other Player - Learn language Now! comes with dozens of BYKI Pod Audio MP3 files. Now you can practice your language wherever you take your MP3 player. | | | Features: | |
• Grammar tutorial; word dictation; online testing; personal progress tracking
• Japanese language software provides a multimedia learning experience
• Participate in real conversations; read interesting articles; play fun games
• 5,000+ words; 100s of useful phrases; full-motion "big picture" video
• Record, playback, and compare to a native speaker; pronunciation analysis
| | | Product Details: | | | Package Length:
| 7.5 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.3 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.6 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.25 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 4 reviews |
| | | System Requirements: | | | Platform:
| Windows XP | | Media:
| CD-ROM | | Item Quantity:
| 1 |
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29 of 32 found the following review helpful:
 Junk!Jan 17, 2005
By N. T. Sechrest
"Space Ninja"
Add this one to the long list of gimiky "learn Japanese in zero seconds a day while you sleep" software programs. When I started studying Japanese I bought this and just about every other program I could find. Not only did it cost me money but it set me back months in my learning progress. This software is USELESS, unless you want to be a robot that spits out odd phrases and can't understand what people say back to you.
The biggest joke is that the packaging advertises a revoluntionary way to remember Kana(phoenetic writing system). You want to know what it is?.....When you click on a Kana character, it shows you a chart of all the kana. Holy smokes! A chart! The same chart you can get from anywhere, for free!
Bottom line..Waist of money. Amazon carries tons of great language tools but this is not one of them. Buy Japanese for busy people, not this.
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
A nice supplementMar 21, 2007
By Brinna Jane Smith
"Brin"
This is not a comprehensive program. If this is the only tool you use to learn a Japanese, you will never get very far because all it does is teach you to memorize phrases. There are no daily lesson plans, no step-by-step approach - just a list of phrases to memorize, and then different ways to test your memory.
BUT, this is a great program to use in *addition* to a more comprehensive course. If you take Japanese at school (or at home, using a better program such as Rosetta Stone) this program could help fill in the gaps in your main course of study. The thing that is really helpful about this, is that it includes video clips of native speakers carrying on everyday conversations. There are also lots of handy "travel phrases" that may not be taught in other programs.
JapaneseNow is a great way to supplement another course, but it does not stand alone.
 No Kana / KanjiDec 30, 2011
By review
Except for the 'chart' that is under 'reference' there is NO Kana nor Kanji used.
One can click the chart for each letter and it gives 2 sample words (that you can click on and hear) with both Kana and Romanji - but that is All for the Kana and no Kanji at all.
All words and phrases within the program is all in Romanji - yet it says to look at each word and see if you can recognize the letters - of course I recognize all the letters! NONE of them are in Kana/Kanji
There is a video, which says you can either watch it as you read along with it or just watch it without the sentences underneath - YET you HAVE to Maximize the screen which Eliminates the sentences to be able to hear anything.
You can either click on each word and hear it or Maximize the Screen and see Only the video and listen. And this isn't REALLY a Video either - no surprise by now - it is a Picture that you get to look at while you hear the sentences spoken. One Picture per 'video'.
This program makes things sound like much more than what it is even when you are using it and it is obvious that it is nothing like what it claims. Very minimal with a whole lot of silly hipe. (I have the same chart in another cheap program too) fortunately I bought it used for less than $5.
5 of 13 found the following review helpful:
 How cool!Sep 26, 2005
I really love this software because it's helping me to learn conversational Japanese. This is a very good software for someone who wants to learn Japanese. I practice everyday and it's a lot of fun! My accent is getting better everyday and I really love this software! It takes a lot of practice to learn a new language. So if you want to learn Japanese try it today!
Sayonara!
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