| | |  | Software | Home » » TeLL me More Japanese - Beginner, Intermediate & Advanced [Old Version] | | | | | | | Description: | | TeLL me More® Japanese language learning software (Beginner-Intermediate-Advanced) 300 hours of Japanese learning 1500 exercises 21 activities and 8000 word audio glossary. System Requirements:PC or compatible: Pentium® Windows® 95/98 16 MB RAM 90 MB available on hard disk 4 X CD-ROM drive 16-bit Windows®-compatible sound card 640 x 480 256-colour graphics card headset or speakers and microphone (free headset and microphone is included)Windows® 95 and NT4 require Microsoft® Internet Explorer 4 or more. Format: WIN 9598MENT2000XP Genre: LANGUAGE UPC: 893416001576 Manufacturer No: 5-007-1 | | | Features: | |
• Japanese language software with 300+ hours of learning
• Teaches Kana alphabets and 1,000+ basic Kanji characters
• Covers writing, grammar, reading, listening, speaking, and more
• 1,500+ exercises; interactive dialogues; speech recognition technology
• Contains levels Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Weight:
| 1.24 pounds | | Package Length:
| 9.6 inches | | Package Width:
| 9.5 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.7 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.3 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 8 reviews |
| | | System Requirements: | | | Platform:
| Windows | | Media:
| CD-ROM | | Item Quantity:
| 1 |
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30 of 30 found the following review helpful:
 Great for my classes and studentsMar 23, 2006
By Tomoko Yokota
I am a Japanese teacher at a community college and use this software TeLL me More in my classes. I also recommend it to my students as I believe it is very well structured and the only good software out there. Also, I happen to be Japanese and feel pretty confident talking English, I was very shocked why the other review mentions that Japanese people cannot talk English as I believe I am succesful at doing it, so immersion works!
Also, the speech recognition works great, it can even tell you within a sentence which word you did not pronounce right. I use that part as a a complement of my classes, having all my students sit down in the lab and pronounce the words. Overall, it is a great learning tool
6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
 It does only a few things wellJan 11, 2011
By Fujiarmu
I had been studying Japanese for a while at the time that I bought this program. The reason I got it originally was to use it in improving those parts of the language I had trouble with, which was mostly listening comprehension and talking speed. While it seems to have helped some in this regard (though the fact is that you must eventually speak with actual people to improve this beyond beginner level), I find this software to be lacking in most capacities.
Here is a summation of my experience:
Pro -
Voice recognition seems to work reasonably well.
The program forces you to read lines and pronounce words with swiftness and accuracy (more or less) before giving you a mark of approval.
The puzzles are sometimes entertaining (though who said a language was supposed to be fun to learn).
The program goes up to an intermediate level of Japanese (the point where you start needing to look at materials beyond textbooks).
There is quite a bit of useful vocabulary and some interesting videos.
Cons -
The program seems to be a bit buggy. It won't work on Windows 7 unless run in compatibility mode and it has sometimes failed to play the voice recording while in a vocal exercise.
The program is poorly arranged, so a beginning student without some idea of where to start would probably be lost.
The user will undoubtedly need supplemental instruction.
In summary, this is not a very good program in my opinion. There are much better ways to learn Japanese and I would recommend putting the money one might spend on this program towards taking a class and picking up some good instructional books and audio CDs.
6 of 8 found the following review helpful:
Good Software, but the navigation is strangeFeb 28, 2007
By E. Ramos
"Take from them everything, give them nothing"
Overall, I liked the software and felt as if I learned a little from it. Although upon starting the software, I was confused as far as where I should start. It give me no indication of what I should do in order or how to proceed.
2 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Totally lostDec 06, 2010
By C. Meyer
I had to buy this program (at a cheap price, thank goodness) to go along with the online Japanese course I took through an out-of-state community college. (Trying to find a college near me that teaches Japanese was impossible.) I can already speak Japanese, but I was taking the course because I never got college credit for my Japanese and never learned to read kanji. I was very disappointed with Tell Me More. First of all, to go anywhere in the program, you are staring at a picture and clicking on different elements in the picture that will take you to different parts of the program. I had to keep going back to the manual to try to look up which thing in the picture takes you to which part of the program. Who decided to get cutesie with that? Just give me a text menu. Good grief! Secondly, many times when I tried to respond to questions, the program said it couldn't understand me. I slowed the program down, but I'm no novice when it comes to speaking Japanese and even though I spoke as fast as I could, it still often didn't give me time to finish my response before it said it couldn't understand me. Anyone who advocates computer programs for learning a foreign language over one-on-one interaction with a live teacher is out of their mind. People totally new to the language are going to speak very slowly and this program doesn't seem to give them time to respond. Since I can already speak Japanese, I often skip the instructions for using Tell Me More and focus on the kanji part of the lesson. Buyer beware!
11 of 17 found the following review helpful:
 Don't buy it don't buy it don't buy itJun 13, 2006
By Anne
I have a slightly different version (DELUXE v2.0), but reading one of the reviews, it looks like there are no appreciable differences. Fortunately for me, it was cheap.
My main complaint is the terrible interface. It's impossible to figure out where to begin. You try doing the "dialogue", and it starts talking at you in japanese and asks you to pick an appropriate response, which is impossible unless you have already studied Japanese enough to understand what they are saying. The other modes are similar. There is a "Reference" mode, which rushes through all of the grammatical rules way too fast for you to actually learn anything. You can't even look anything up unless you already know how to write and read the Japanese character sets. It doesn't show the romanzied version of words. There's a non-functional "Video" icon in my version too.
So it won't work for beginners because it doesn't actually teach you anything. MAYBE if you already knew some Japanese and wanted to test your knowledge, it would be good. I was hoping it would help me integrate knowledge of written with spoken Japanese, but that doesn't seem to be working out. Oh well. At least I didn't pay $175 for it.
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