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Summary: Terrible Software
Review: Probably one of the worst pieces of boxed software I've seen. I've been learning Japanese on my own for 6 months and would really like some software to help me drill and provide some structure. This is not it. No manual, the microphone works on one computer but not on another, you need to have the CD in the drive (no way to install completely to disk), voice recognition is terrible, etc. Spend money on something else.
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Summary: save your money
Review: The only redeeming item in this cd set is the Blackbelt software- a mahjong game that will allow you to memorize kana and some kanji. However, you can get this software independently from blackbeltlanguage. It seems that the company who made this product just put together a bunch of junk and packaged it as education software. The other CDs are absolutely worthless. You will not learn a thing from them.
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Summary: Worst Software I have ever bought
Review: The only thing good about this software is that it can be held up as an example of how not to design user interfaces and how not to teach a language.
The user interfaces is slow, frustrating to use, non-intuitive, and looks like something you'd expect to see on an Apple II.
The software itself consists mainly of drills with no teaching.... which is essentially useless if you have no prior experience with the language. Forget learning grammar or anything with this crap.
I've gone with the Pimseleur Level 1 & 2 courses...much more expensive but worth it.
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Summary: Worst Software I have ever bought
Review: The only thing good about this software is that it can be held up as an example of how not to design user interfaces and how not to teach a language.The user interfaces is slow, frustrating to use, non-intuitive, and looks like something you'd expect to see on an Apple II. The software itself consists mainly of drills with no teaching.... which is essentially useless if you have no prior experience with the language. Forget learning grammar or anything with the crap. I've gone with the Pimseleur Level 1 & 2 courses...much more expensive but worth it.
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Summary: A great buy!
Review: This package is a great deal and a very effective way to learn a complicated language such as Japanese. The audio CD is great, but the software proposed is really amazing. The speech recognition feature is really impressive, as you can have a sort of dialogue with your computer, as it can correct your mistake! I have never seen that anywhere else.
It is also very complete as you have activities for written skills , oral pronunciation, grammar...
For the price, it is a great deal, and affordable way to learn a new language.
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Summary: Horrible!
Review: This product is garbage... My mother is a native Japanese speaker, and I've taken two years of Japanese, so trust me and stay away from this product, as it does not address very important aspects of Japanese grammar which should be learned immediately upon an introduction to the language. Also, take note of all of JP26's (the aforementioned reviewer's) reviews...all of them are for Topics Entertainment products. I think that it would be safe to assume that JP26 is somewhat biased. :)
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