Pimsleur Japanese Lessons

The entire three levels are available on Kazaa too, I think.

Does anyone have any links for learning Mandarin Chinese too? Im also interested in mandarin.

Well, I'll put my 2 cents in. When you first decide to learn japanese you think, "well I'll bypass the writing system and just learn to speak." Sounds logical since Japanese has the second most difficult writing system in the world, (and some argue the first)

But, that's just not possible. Writing is so tied in with a language and spoken japanese is soo very basterized that unless you understand the root of speech you will never get anywhere.

There are several versions of pimsleur out there, the first versions were like polite 1950's old lady japanese, the newer edition (1998) is much better but still way to polite. If you learn polite forms exclusively (kaigo) you won't have any idea what people are saying (in Japan) because no one talks like that.

That doesn't mean Pimsluer is useless. But you should easily learn everything Pimsleur 1 teaches in a few weeks or months of real japanese study. Once you understand the words learning how to put your new words into sentences is a great help.

Uzumaki Naruto! wrote:Does anyone have any links for learning Mandarin Chinese too? Im also interested in mandarin.

oooh have fun. mandarin is one of those langugages you should take in a classroom enviorment. i took it for a year and my professor was BRUTAL. it's hard because there are 4 tones per syllable and if you mess the tone up, you mess the word up. have fun.

http://jaychoustudio.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=46

these are also Pimsleur lessons. You'll need emule, though.

Thanks honey =) !!

pimsleur is available on Womby's BT tracker. they are MP3 format.
http://bunko.theppn.org/?page=1

for those that are interested in learning japanese. :mrgreen:

amrayu wrote:pimsleur is available on Womby's BT tracker. they are MP3 format.
http://bunko.theppn.org/?page=1

for those that are interested in learning japanese. :mrgreen:

thanks amrayu!

yes i am interested in learning japanese :D

solidsonya wrote:

thanks amrayu!

yes i am interested in learning japanese :D

have fun learning!! there are also 2 episodes of a japanese language lesson video (something karasou) forgot the name, but womby is uploading it i think..have fun!!

It's 'nihongo de kurasou' I think.

Hi All,

If anyone can tell me how, I can post the pimsleur Japanese files.

Mouse

Hi All,

If anyone can tell me how, I can post the pimsleur Japanese files.

Mouse

Does the Pimsleur course work?

Also, if you Bit Torrent it... is it nessacary to have the book that came with it... or is it just a contents book or something? Won't be missing any information without it right? :D

mouse wrote:Hi All,

If anyone can tell me how, I can post the pimsleur Japanese files.

Mouse

u need a webhost to store the files

then u can put a link to them in here

I must tell you, that in Europe, in Poland japanese language is very popular. Also japanese movies, music and manga and anime. :D :twisted: I'm so happy....

hi guys! ^^ I'm new to the boards so I hope this is the right place to post this, but ive downloaded Pimsleur from Kazaa and only got to lesson 5 lol (the rest won't download :( ) If any of you have a good link for 1 and 2 I would be forever in your debt ^^ thank you ;)

Anyone know where I can still download the mp3 format of Pimsleur's Japanese?

I thought it could interest some people on here: he are some DDlinks to download pimsleur's first volume (30 lessons, 25minutes each one).
I'm using it to start learning japanese, i'm on the 4th lesson and i must say that it works for me :dancing: . (one link= 10 lessons)

http://www.filefactory.com/get/f.php?f=28db4a24a2927c3919390a71
http://www.filefactory.com/get/v3/f2.php?f=5dc050acc3c970c70e92d89f
http://www.filefactory.com/get/v3/f2.php?f=86399bd1aca9581955a975ad

i have em all if someone wants me to seed em or find em on minimova or thepiratebay or something...
yeah i'm almost done...good start for me i guess to learn the language but of course i think a structured class is so much better and efficient for learning the language but this does an ok job IMO (of course the opinions of other people would be nice too...i might just be biased or plain wrong :P)

Garp_is_dead wrote:I thought it could interest some people on here: he are some DDlinks to download pimsleur's first volume (30 lessons, 25minutes each one).
I'm using it to start learning japanese, i'm on the 4th lesson and i must say that it works for me :dancing: . (one link= 10 lessons)

http://www.filefactory.com/get/f.php?f=28db4a24a2927c3919390a71
http://www.filefactory.com/get/v3/f2.php?f=5dc050acc3c970c70e92d89f
http://www.filefactory.com/get/v3/f2.php?f=86399bd1aca9581955a975ad

Thanks. I d/l all of them and this is a nice supplement to my 2 foot high stack of Japanese learning books; books on verbs, adjectives, Kanji dicitonary, particles etc....

I listened to the first 30 minutes and I like the technique. At least in this method they speak it slow enough so you can actually understand the sounds unlike other methods I bought were they speak like a rocket firing without breaking it down at all. :doh: