No online and unrestricted access ??:
Well, not quite! You have to register first of all (online) and then it is always so that the program does not start without Internet with me. For then will every time performed a synchronization. This means that, although during the running program is not obliged to do everything online, which is great, but you must have an Internet connection on the PC with which you want to learn.
The program is a 2 for PC available for installation. Unrestricted access you so if you install it maximum 2x and Internet access has).
Japanese Features:
The Japanese vocabulary are quite sometimes introduced a bit bumpy. But the whole, that does not come often. So called child in the Romaji (the characters below more) as the authors use onnanoko and woman onna no hito. The attentive reader will now notice that onna no ko to onna no hito uniform and would have been a clear fit. After all, why 2x differently?
And at the latest when the written together plural onnanokotachi one comes as a layman in the very first exercises no longer so easy to read afterwards. ^^
Characters:
>> Unfortunately, does not explain anything of what I now reports in the program! You can switch back and forth during the exercises between Hiragana / Katakana, Kanji and Romaji. Bottom of the image is a field where you can click on this. There are pronunciation exercises, which always Hiragana / Katakana are displayed so that you can practice this. Since individual syllables and then the whole word must be repeated after particular at the words.
Romaji are our letter and the Japanese words as they sound just with our letters.
Hiragana is the Japanese syllabary, where individual characters eg no or a mean. They are therefore much easier to learn than Kanji and she is quite useful in Japan.
There are katakana, another syllabary used to write foreign words.
The words you can also view at Kanji. These are characters that stand for individual words (or their combination results in words). Of which there are consequently very much longer. These are not practiced in the program. You can view them only during the exercises and himself herrausfinde which character which word is the most effective if only 1 thing is mapped and there is only one word. There are a few characters that are practical to know: for example, children or adult, so you can read them on the Japanese price lists for admission prices.
Learning:
You have to assign images and accompanying words. For example, colors or man / woman. Then there are images in which the words are connected to others. The house is green or The man reading .. So you have to think about what could mean the new words already well. This consolidates the vocabulary (with me). The repetition of the words in new contexts is good. The contexts are not always clear. Sometimes I thought to myself then even what kind of word you mean ?.
What I miss are sometimes explanations and exercises for active vocabulary (more on below!).
There is nothing stated in German or said.
Then there are exercises such as writing and pronunciation of sounds and words.
What I'm missing / notice:
> Me missing a book or a built-in dictionary. For example, that you can look up the images and the words / phrases again which you have just learned and to which one wants to remember. While you can repeat each task, but that it means Search
> What strikes me here, is that so no grammar is explained, but this one must elicit from different sets of images itself. This works out easier and sometimes less easily.
> The same images are used for all language programs, which are somehow a cross-section of many cultures. I lack a bit because of the aspect to meet typical scenes from the country whose language is wants to learn. For example, street signs and bus stops.
Active and passive vocabulary:
Here the passive vocabulary is trained superficially. I try then itself exercises for the active vocabulary imagine. But really, I always think I'd like to somehow apply to myself to check what they have learned now. There are at the end of Chapter 4 jeweil 1 short exercise where you can do that. And sometimes you have to write, but as the word being said. It had been there just to incorporate some active exercises.
Headset and voice recognition:
The headset is very inconvenient, since it is very close. But it is very convenient that a case is!
The voice recognition works relatively well. I find it quite surprising that he sometimes actually hears the words in which I get to stumble. But sometimes he zickt also where he apparently really hear me at all. Then I scream into the mic at some point and will slightly annoyed. One can the accuracy of speech recognition but also different set if you want to. I've had enough of difficulty but that.
