There is only one transcript for pimsleur japanese, and it is for PJ I, it's fan-written, I believe... so...
Here is the problem with pimsleur, the explanations of gramar are pretty weak, its strong point is that it atempts to teach you listening comprehension, however, it leaves so much out that unless you have a better knowledge of Japanese, you'll simply not learn certain things, like you should.
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are however a lot of free audio podcasts out there, which provide transcripts (hello pimsleur--- reading makes us learn what we've heard even moreso)... It was simply laziness on pimsleur's behalf--- Not only this, the podcast sites realise that it helps when someone slows down, yukuri, yukuri... you'll hear this when you teach English to a friend, slowly, you can use this to ask someone to say something slower--- it's rediculous that every dialogue in pimsleur is so fast that you have to listen to it 10 times in a row to be sure that you've caught the language correctly--- and there is no way to verify you did, because you don't have transcripts... poor... quite poor.
It teaches words and phrases that are quite frankly, useless... instead of teaching you the word for 'dolar', it should teach you how to shop for food at a store and get back realistic ammounts of yen, not 11-13-15 yen...
Last, I have a feeling that the audio was created ages ago for some sort of Consular education program, would it kill them to get a native Japanese speaker to explain the Japanese, instead of, as is normal for the more grating audio lessons, an obviously white american male?
You'll learn quite a lot of un-natural Japanese in many different texts, but pimsleur seems to make it it's center piece.
Bucko said:
You should use ganbaru, instead of ganbatte, ganbatte is said mainly by women.
