Hi All,

I know this book has been mentioned hear before but the search results are not proving to be useful -- does anyone have strong opinions or thoughts on the book "Live from Tokyo" that focuses on listening comprehension of "real" conversations in Japanese? I'd consider myself a pretty advanced student as far as reading/vocab/grammar goes, but listening comprehension and speaking are still my weak spots and I'm always a sucker for material like this book seems to offer.

http://shop.whiterabbitjapan.com/live-fr...anese.html
http://bookclub.japantimes.co.jp/en/titl...om%20TOKYO (some samples available here)

Thanks for any reviews!

K.

It's pretty good but not great.

Most of the dialogs are advanced travel related dialogs so I could see how it could be useful, but for me personally I would give it an average(3 star) review just cause I found I got kinda bored with the content and didn't really like the format of the book so much.

Was kinda cool that the speech is done in a natural/live style vs. text book style though.

I got a lot more mileage out of the shadowing books (also thru whiterabitpress).

Interesting comments, thanks!

I personally found the shadowing books to be a bit dull -- perhaps because the short conversation snippets seemed very contrived and though spoken at a decent natural-ish pace they did not feel very... human. A bit too much voice acting. However, putting that aside they are varied and practical. I thought maybe this Live from Tokyo book might be a bit more appealing in the "realness" sense, but 17 conversations seems a bit limited for ~30 bucks.

If you wanna sell (or donate ) your copy feel free to send me a PM

k

@kodorakun

According to the online 目次 is has 約93分 worth of audio. And given that the first chapter has 5 tracks, I don't think it just has "17 conversations". I don't own the book, but I think you're mischaracterizing it.

CJ