Any recommendations for an audio course for someone who has finished all three levels of Pimsleur? I know about the NHK Japanese Lessons but I don't like how they spend time talking about what they are going to say and all the explanations. That is because I'm also learning Japanese with a textbook. What I'm looking for are audio's that just give you phrases, along with their English translation. I plan on memorizing them through a lot of repetitions.

How about "Ultimate Japanese" by Living Languages? There are two levels. beg-int and adv. I don't know much about the Japanese one but I know the German one is excellent. It's a mix of audio and book.

How about JapanesePod101? It's very very nice... right Sakura?
(and break it down...)

Yes, break it down nice and slow... very very nice

If you want just phrases and their translation, the assimil japanese course is like that. It has a book that goes with the audio that has it in japanese with the kanji and furigana above it. It's called "Japanese With Ease". I haven't got a chance to get started on it yet since I'm mostly just working on RTK1, so I can't personally vouch for it but it has what you want.

Sorry about revisiting an old thread, but I looked at the Audio lessons given by NHK site.

http://www.nhk.or.jp/lesson/english/index.html

While most of it seems pointless after Pimsleur, I think this looks like a great source to mine for entry into beginning sentence decks ala AJATT and Anki. I've been entering Pimsleur sentences, but the annoying part has been converting to Kanji (let's face it, if you don't know the root verb, you're gonna hunt a bit to find it). This has a nifty part on the side, you can get the transcript where the introductory segment is shown in Romaji, Kanji and English.

Anyway, a decent site to look at for initial deck entries. Consider about 50 lessons with maybe 5 sentences each.

I wrote this a while ago. I stopped around Pimsleur II the 21th lesson. After talking with a Japanese native who said the conversations sounded weird and very formal. In addition, they speak way to slow for me. I just listen to regular Japanese conversation at normal level, using casual speech(no desu, taberu instead of tabemasu etc...). But Pimsleur is a good start.

I am using those lessons after Pimsleur. I'm going through the Brush up your Japanese, only listening to the dialogs and inputing some of the sentences into Anki. I mostly skip the explanations.
Pimsleur is rather good in my opinion but I did it because I have the time when I commute, otherwise it would be way too boring. The fact that the conversations are not natural doesn't bother me and since you often get to repeat things several times I would do it in polite form and plain or try variations for myself.
Back to NHK, there was a site with an archive of all the lessons a while back. I don't know if it's still up though.

The archive is still up

http://www.hickorytech.net/~nic111/