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| Instant Immersion Japanese Deluxe | 
| List Price: $49.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (based on 18 reviews)
Sales Rank: 8338
Category: Software
Publisher: Topics Entertainment
Studio: Topics Entertainment
Brand: TOPICS Entertainment
Label: Topics Entertainment
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Deluxe
Autographed: 0
Memorabilia: 0
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.5 x 1.3
MPN: 80364
UPC: 781735803646
EAN: 0781735803646
ASIN: B00009ZLJR
Release Date: June 15, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Pentium (166 MHz recommended) Windows 95 and higher, including XP | | • | 16 MB RAM (32 MB RAM recommended) 90 MB HD (110 MB recommended) 2X CD-ROM drive (12X CD-ROM drive recommended) | | • | 16-bit Windows compatible sound card 640 x 480, 256 color graphics card (1,024 x 768, 65,53f6 color graphics card recommended) Microphone and speakers or headset Internet access and e-mail address r | | • | Topics | | • | PC |
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Product Description
This 8 CD suite combines an immersion environment with a brand-new curriculum that will quickly move you from a beginner to an advanced student. Start your study by mastering Hiragana, Katakana, and basic Kanji with the entertaining BLACKBELT Japanese CD-ROM - an effective combination of mah-jongg and video game animation. Continue with the 4 CD-ROM series from Europe's best-selling language-learning software. The advanced speech recognition feature coupled with the unique speech analysis technology (S.E.T.S.) evaluates and corrects your pronunciation, ensuring you develop correct oral skills. to round out your study, reinforce your vocabulary lessons with the 3 companion audio CDs.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 13 more reviews...
 No structure at all September 29, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I came to this program with no experience with Japanese. For the longest time I thought I must be missing something. Where is step 1. Every section seems to require prior knowledge.
I was able to muddle through it, but I felt like it was fighting me rather than trying to help me. I want to spend my brainpower learning how to speak Japanese, not trying to understand this program and its contents. It did make good use of the PC to help teach me how to say things. But most of the time I had no idea what I was saying.
The interface was cute and clever, but helped to obscure the functionality of the program not make things clearer.
In the end I just googled some lessons and found it much easier going. I think it was a waste of money.
 Pretty good December 30, 2005
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Many people I've noticed complain of not knowing where to start. True, I already knew some Japanese when I got the program so hopping right into some of it didn't kill me, but I didn't find it a daunting task to figure it out where others would be good to start. For those who don't know any of the particle words, word order, numbers, etc., when it loads the main set of links, click on the lower left corner where there's a pile of books. It should say something like "reference"-it should help you out.
I've really enjoyed this program thus far. True the menu style is rather simplistic, but I can't imagine how you could get too lost when if you roll over a link it'll tell you where it goes. My favorite of its features is the "dialouge" section where you hear a voice say something to you in Japanese and you have to respond. (You need a microphone for this!) If you roll over key words, it will tell you the definition. If you aren't sure how to pronounce the responce, double-click the sentence and it'll tell you. Which you can then replay as you need and even try prounouncing it yourself, which it will then rate how well you said it and even allow to see which part of the sentence you're having trouble with. (You can also replay past times you've tried pronouncing it, but I've never really found that necessary)
The audio CDs aren't bad, but I'm honestly not sure I'll ever use them. The JquickTrans looks confusing-especially compared to the simplicity of the actual program-but after looking up words to see what's doing what, it wasn't so bad. When you double click the kanji it will tell you the strokes that make it up, which helped me remember them. You can add to a "study list"; another thing I've liked. When you click to show flashcards, you can go through all on your list and: practice drawing the character/word, guess the word, and guess its meaning. When guessing the word and meaning, it'll give you red if you aren't close, yellow if you are, and green if you got it.
Don't know if this helped anyone or not, but...personally, I'd recommend it. Once you figure out how everything works, it really is a great program. I give it a four out of five: they could have been more straightforward in how to get started, but it's still a good program to help you learn Japanese. (Sorry if this was a little long!)
(EDIT:) Looking at past reviews, some people seemed to have trouble with it running. Not sure about that; it works fine on mine. I also noticed people complaining it didn't teach you and you had to look up words on your own, which made me laugh a little. Though true, it's also how you learn things-by looking it up. It's self-teaching that's helping you out, not a class with easy answers. Perhaps it doesn't work for some, but I personally remember things better when I have to look it up. Even if it didn't teach you as much as you may have liked, it really should have made much easier for you to learn more. I'm sure this will annoy someone, but think of it this way: it took you a nice long while to learn your native tongue, and it takes the Japanese a nice long while to learn theirs as well. Do you really expect a program to teach you EVERYTHING?
I get the impression this was created to give you the hang of the language so learning new words is much easier. I'm honestly not sure what more you expect, but I still think its a good program.
 Very cool! September 30, 2005
I love this Japanese software because it's very cool! I really love the audio CD's because they're helping me learn more words. The collest thing about this software is you can practice your speaking skills and choose a level you're on. That's awesome! I really love this software because it's helping me learn Japanese!
One of the worst ever April 29, 2005
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
I have tried many different language programs and this is by far the worst. I couldn't even figure out how to use the thing. I really that learning a new language isn't easy, but this is by no means the proper way to go about it. The software is confusing, there is no reference book, and it is definately not for beginners. Stay away from this program.
 Lots of information, little direction. February 23, 2005
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
It's as clear as the title. When I got this I had no idea what to do and was confused about whether or not I bought a bad product. Once you give it some time though, you realize there is a lot to it (not the language, of course there's a lot to that, but the software). It's lacking direction almost entirely though, so that means you'll need to put in a good amount of effort. Doesn't that make sense though? You couldn't seriously think you could learn a language with a new set of characters without putting in effort did you? It just takes some figuring out. It's good to start off with the blackbelt disc and learn the kanji and then after you've spent some time on that try the other set of discs. Switching back and forth seems the best way to do it. Since you don't have a tutor (but you can get a 2 week online tutor for free) it might be good to make up your own excercises or something. I just used a method from learning spanish. Write the word in english, then write the kanji version of it twice, then write the romanji form of it so that you know how to pronounce it. Writing and studying will help you learn. I'm unsure exactly about whether or not I'm writing correctly. I haven't gotten that far in the program yet though.
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