leosmith Wrote:They are only the opening dialogues and listening comprehension. They are very expensive because the audio books are no longer in print. They are incredibly hard to come by. I think that if one has some other supplementary way to listen to japanese (either through Pimsleur, japanesepod101.com, etc.) then it is not necessary or worth the money to get the audio materials for this book.Christoph Wrote:What I'd like to ask is; are the audio CD's a necessary part of this course? or can they be overlooked?I'm pretty sure they include only the opening dialogues and the listening comprehension excercises. I believe they cost over $100 too.
leosmith Wrote:Everybody has their own ways of learning, but what I really want are all the exercises in the book on audio, in the english-japanese-japanese format. This greatly improves my speed. Oh, what's that...? Hey it looks like I just happen to have the exercises for the first 10 lessons on audio (this is not the book's audio; it's me reading my sentences in english-japanese-japanese). You are welcome to them. My pronunciation is good, but not perfect, so it's up to you...Holy crap! You have audio for this book? That is really awesome. I am no real whiz when it comes to webpages, etc. but I think those audio files would be really awesome. I personally would love to get them and put them on my mp3 player with my japanesepod101.com stuff. Since I finshed all three Pimsleur levels, I don't have much useful audio anymore besides japanesepod101. It would be great if someone could help us get this stuff available on the web somewhere.
Let's all work together to get some great resources available for this book.