Learning resources with audio and pictures but with out English anyone?
So far I’ve found: Rosetta stone
Before you know it (you can add pics and delete the English)
Kids ds games for learning hiragana (the novelty wares off very quick)
Tv

oggthegoblin Wrote:Learning resources with audio and pictures but with out English anyone?

Japanese TV? The pictures move, too!

Joking aside, I guess what you're looking for is illustrated vocabulary, something like:

イタチ (+audio)

The closest thing I've seen for free is the smart.fm Core 6000 (and it's little brother the Core 2000). However, the problem is that sometimes the words are really abstract and the pictures don't match well enough for you to be able to get rid of the English. Lots of high-frequency, easy-to-translate words are difficult to find pictures for, like 今年 = "this year" vs. 来年 = "last year".

The audio's a great resource, though.

Another thing you might run into is pictures being chosen by an English-speaker based on the translated meaning. The picture I give above is indeed an イタチ, but a species found in England, Canada, and the United States. The Japanese one doesn't look like that.

Anyway, since you want pictures and don't care about having English, you might be able to use Japanese vocabulary resources for young children (basically, preschool to middle-school stuff). The only problem is that this involves shopping in Japanese, which is very awkward for beginners.

My personal recommendation is to not worry about learning basic vocabulary with English. Transition to Japanese definitions (from Sanseidou or Challenge) as you understand them. It's true that English does not exactly match the meaning of Japanese words all the time, but vocabulary study is only to provide a starting point anyway. Sentences and extensive reading will fill in the gaps.

wildweathel Wrote:今年 = "this year" vs. 来年 = "last year".

去年・昨年, or "next year"?

I tried a couple of picture-based cards, but to find the pictures I just searched for the Japanese word on Google. I hadn't added audio to them, though.

If you have Verizon FIOS, they carry TV Japan, which costs $25/month I think.

Another option would be Japanese news sites like http://www.fnn-news.com (since they often contain exact transcriptions of what the newscaster says). So you have the news video and matching transcriptions for many stories.