Let's Learn Japanese is a video-based Japanese language study course. This TV Course was aired in Japan daily to learn foreigners the japanese language. The lessions are presented by english speaking teacher Mary Althaus, and features a number of skits with Mine San, Sugihara San and Kaiho San which are designed to help the viewer of the TV Course to memorize and practice new words and grammatical structures. The mainskits of this TV Course follows the story of YAN who is starting a new life in Japan, working as an architect.
This TV SERIES Yan San and the Japanese People teaches the viewer the essential Japanese language - the language that is really used on the streets ( and not just textbook-gajinsan-japanese ). You will be surprised by the lots of strange behaviors and sentence-filler-words used in the Course ( like, NE, YO, AH, EEE etc, ) - but thats how friends speak in Japan. With this course you will learn both : Japanese for business in its high and pridefull form AND ( sorry to say it in plunt words ) the slang-japanese between friends.
The full course will help you to understand and learn BASIC 1 + BASIC 2 ( advanced ) Japanese, learn you the HIRAGANA and KATAKANA - and introduce you many japanese culture in this videos.
In total there are 26 Episodes ( each about 30 minutes ) for LETS LEARN JAPANESE - BASIC 1 ( Beginners Course ) and another 26 Episodes ( also about 30 minutes each Episode ) for LETS LEARN JAPANESE - BASIC 2 ( Advance ) - thats 26 HOURS of learning you will enjoy ! The textbooks ( Basic 1 + Basic 2 = 4 Volumes ) are included on the DVD as ebook !