I’ve found two great products that you may be interested in especially if you want to accelerate your education. Speficically there are two products I recommend: Rocket Japanese and Nihongo Japanese. Both of these are excellent resources that you can use and offer japanese language courses that are far more in depth than what I can provide here. Not only are there audio and visual components to each course, but they’re affordable and far cheaper than Rosetta stone. That’s not to say Rosetta stone is bad, it’s certainly not but it’s a tad on the expensive side and I’m not about to try and convince you to buy a $300 program when something far cheaper can achieve the same results. So that being said, let me give you a brief summary of what’s involved in each course and then I’ll give you a more in depth review of each.
First off, Rocket Japanese is an extremely popular online japanese language course. It has over 14 hours of audio tracks as well as detailed grammar and vocabulary resources for learners of any experience level (between 1 and over 9000). Rocket Japanese also includes a variety of memory games which will greatly accelerate the learning process. The Rocket series of language courses has an excellent track record and from the research I’ve done it seems as though the Japanese guide is also very well put together.
Another excellent resource is a new japanese language course called Nihongo Japanese. Nihongo is definitely geared for absolute beginners and takes things easy with you by offering a nice, slow, gradual learning curve to make sure you don’t get overwhelmed early on. What’s even better about Nihongo is the wealth of video tutorials that can be downloaded and transferred to ipod so you can take the coursees with you. They also are one of the only online japanese courses that offer an optional subscription newsletter which sends out lessons for 30 days after the initial purchase.
Both systems are easily affordable and offer a solid learning base. For more detailed information, read my full reviews at either Japanese Language Course Reviews – Nihongo Japanese or Japanese Language Course Reviews – Rocket Japanese
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I recommend this language course as well. I’ve used the spanish one and it really makes a difference. Thanks for sharing.
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