Instant Immersion Japanese Review

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I have written this Instant Immersion Japanse review to inform you about the product incase you are considering buying it.

The course teaches Japanese through the use of images, audio files of native Japanese speakers and some video lessons but not many. The audio lessons can also be downloaded as MP3's so this makes them really convenient too.

Included with in the course is a speech recognition tool that is designed to help you practice the correct pronuniciation which is a pretty cool feature.

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Although the pictures and audio conversations are a good way to learn, and most good Japanese course include them, Instant Immersion Japanese does tend to focus on teaching grammar text lessons to explain how to best use words in sentences.

Don't get me wrong this is effective and grammar is essential, I just prefer multimedia as much as possible when I am learning a language and tend to switch off in text based lessons.

Another point to note is that the course can be difficult to navigate through, and is not the most user friendly. As it can take some time to work out where you need to go next to start the following lessons.

However in saying that there are some great word translation tools that are easy to use and most helpful too.

Finally one downfall of the product in my opinion is that there is not that great a support system set up. When you choose to do a study from home language you obviously save money when compared to hiring a private tutor, but you do lose the support that a private tutor provides.

Now this is important to me because when I get stuck I need to know that I can get help. So when I look for a course to do from home the quality of support is important to me. Instant Immersion do have a frequently asked questions section, but I never find any websites FAQ useful, let's be honest. The only email support they provide is for technical problems.

Although this is good Japanese language course I don't think it's the best. If you want my opinion of the best Japanese Language course available today then it's Rocket Japanese by a long shot. Their course is developed by the Language learning giant 'Rocket Languages' so you can rest assured that it is made by the pro's.

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Rocket has execellent support where you can email your learning problems 24 hrs a day and one of their teachers will respond!! Not only that they also have a Japanese learning forum where you can post comments and questions and work together with other people doing the course.

Rocket Japanese has all the bells and whistles of a quality language product and also has extra built in language learning software games for vocabularly, Japanese characters and more...which I have thoughroughly enjoyed and my Japanese skills have improved out of sight using this course.

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