Power Japanese for Windows

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Learn to read and write basic Japanese in just 10 weeks!

Power Japanese is a comprehensive, interactive, multimedia learning system for Japanese. With Power Japanese, you can teach yourself basic spoken and written Japanese right on your computer in as little as 10 weeks!

Using multiple techniques, including innovative screen design, careful selection and presentation of materials, native speaker pronunciation, interactive drills and games, animated dialogs, and much more, Power Japanese provides a vibrant learning environment that maintains your focus on the information at hand and helps you retain what you have learned.

Fun, Easy Japanese Learning

Power Japanese takes advantage of innate language skills to quickly and painlessly cut across otherwise vast and overwhelming areas of Japanese. Instead of drowning you in details, Power Japanese focuses on the main features of Japanese which underlie the entire language.

With Power Japanese, you will learn:

To read and write Hiragana and Katakana – the basic syllables of the Japanese language – with fully animated, stroke-by-stroke writing tutors.
The basic components of the Japanese sentence and how to form correct sentences in Japanese.
Essential words, phrases, and concepts for everyday speech.
All about adjectives and verbs.
10 simple tricks for speaking Japanese.

The most effective learning is always a joyful and self-enriching experience. Power Japanese will enable you to start expressing your own thoughts in Japanese with a minimum fuss. Discover for yourself why Power Japanese is unique and unequalled among Japanese-learning systems.

FREE BONUS

Kana Editor / Japanese Word Processor

Use your PC keyboard to enter phonetic Kana characters so you can write, format, and print letter-quality documents in Japanese!

This handy tool is included free with Power Japanese.

**REQUIREMENTS**
Windows - Windows 98SE, 2000, Me, or XP; 133MHz Pentium or better; 32 MB available RAM; 20 MB disk space to run with the CD in the drive (approximately 60 MB additional space to run without CD); sound card; speakers; support for High Color or True Color settings and at least 800 x 600 resolution; 2X CD-ROM drive. NOTE: Not currently compatible with 64 bit versions of Windows XP or Vista.

Power Chinese for Windows

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Learn to read and write basic Mandarin Chinese in just 8 weeks!

Power Chinese was designed to meet the specific learning needs of native English speakers. You can spend as little as 30 minutes a day and in just 8 weeks you will have covered the equivalent of one year of college-level Chinese.

Using an innovative learning strategy which breaks down and then reconstructs the Chinese language, Power Chinese will have you reading, writing, and using essential Chinese in no time.

Power Chinese begins by tackling the most difficult aspects of Chinese for the typical English learner, including pronunciation, tones, and key aspects of syntax and grammar. But don't worry!

Challenging Concepts Made Easy

These and all other concepts introduced in Power Chinese are presented as comparisons to how things are done in English – allowing you to focus on those areas that are most different from English and making learning Chinese easier and more enjoyable.

Power Chinese is based on the same award-winning method that earned Power Japanese dozens of stellar reviews and awards. The Power Method – uniquely suited to meet the needs of busy learners – includes:

Memory techniques that make information more digestible and more retainable to adult learners,
A less intimidating approach that leaves out information that is not absolutely relevant to understanding the language,
Extensive use of graphics to heighten right-brain participatory learning.

Power Chinese includes:

Fully animated stroke-by-stroke writing of the 600 most common simplified Chinese characters.
More than 800 phrases and 1,200 sentences chosen for their high frequency in everyday speech. See these words and phrases over and over in sentences, in dialogs, and in video clips.
Over 2,500 audio clips of words, phrases, and sentences all spoken by native speakers.
Extensive interactive drills to help you retain what you have learned.
Humorous dialogs to further promote retention of key phrases and concepts.
Video clips of impromptu interviews with real people speaking Chinese in real-life situations.

Discover for yourself why Power Chinese is unique and unequalled among Chinese-learning systems.

**REQUIREMENTS**
Windows - Windows 98SE, 2000, Me, or XP; 133MHz Pentium or better; 32 MB available RAM; 20 MB disk space to run with the CD in the drive (approximately 230 MB additional space to run without CD); sound card; speakers; support for High Color or True Color settings and at least 800 x 600 resolution; 2X CD-ROM drive. NOTE: Not currently compatible with 64 bit versions of Windows XP or Vista.

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