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Learn Japanese with Paul Noble for Beginners – Complete Course

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Learn Japanese with Paul Noble for Beginners – Complete Course

By: Paul Noble
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No books. No long lists of vocabulary. No chance of failure.

Welcome to Learn with Paul Noble – a tried and tested language learning method that has been used by over 1 million people to speak fluently and confidently.

With Paul Noble’s simple, relaxed approach you will learn in a way that suits you – without having to memorise long lists of words you won’t use; scribbling notes as you listen; or feeling frustrated. Instead, Paul will introduce you to the basics of Japanese and guide you through over 15 hours of everyday scenarios – from simple situations like asking for directions and eating out to talking about yourself and how to master the different tenses – that are practical, fun, and applicable. Just listen, interact, and learn wherever you are.

Whatever your experience with languages, whether you’re an absolute beginner or someone with basic knowledge who wants to improve their ability, this is the course to get you speaking Japanese quickly and confidently.

A native Japanese expert will help you to perfect your pronunciation as you progress through the course. You will learn a huge range of vocabulary in no time at all, and be able to quickly make your new knowledge work for you in a variety of everyday scenarios. A downloadable booklet is also included to use as a reference and revision tool.

Paul Noble left school unable to speak a language – having found that the traditional learning methods left him feeling ‘confused, incapable and unable to really say anything’. Determined that there must be a better way to learn, Paul spent years devising his own unique method of learning languages which cuts out all the grammar, all the memorisation, and all the stress. He began using his method to teach in his Language Institute and, thousands of students later, he prides himself on never having had a student fail.

This download contains the entire course – Parts 1, 2, and 3. To continue your language learning journey once you’ve completed this course, download Next Steps in Japanese with Paul Noble for Intermediate Learners – Complete Course.

The accompanying booklet is also available at: collinsdictionary.com/resources.

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The Paul Noble language books work like magic. It’s very interactive and makes it feel like you are being tutored face to face. I can’t say I’ll remember everything that Paul Noble has taught me in this book, but I will certainly remember most of it and I may come back to it and listen again if I want to brush up my basic Japanese. Moving on to the next book now - ‘Next Steps in Japanese with Paul Noble’!

Highly recommend his books if you’re looking to learn a new language.

The pinnacle of language tutoring

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I love this. It gave me a good starting point for learning the words and structures without having to sit down and learn it. I have been listening and following as I go back and forth from work. The ability to try and say the words and have it confirmed afterwards was really good. It also made me so much more confident in saying sentences “fluently” which was such a big deal. My confidence to learn has been boosted so much that I will keep on going and work on the minutiae of the letters and words. Time to buy the Advanced audiobook. :)

Great starting point for learning!!!

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If you have struggled with Pimsleur japanese 1 Paul Noble is for you. very easy to get into.

Japanese is easier with Paul Noble.

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Really liked this course. I have been using Duolingo to learn Japanese for a few months and this book really helped me understand grammar better. I think it helped that I already had a basic Japanese vocabulary . This course greatly extended my understanding of sentence composition in an easy to understand way and explained a lot that Duolingo does not. I will be listening to the next book to delve further.

Excellent course

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A brilliant start in Japanese. Develops an understanding of the language in a really clever structured way. Really got me going in speaking Japanese.

A language teaching work of genius

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I listen to this in the car and find Paul's techniques really help me to remember things.

I am already doing a distance learning course in Japanese and this audio book does a good job of helping me. I have already pre ordered the next steps in Japanese by Paul Noble. Well worth buying in my opinion.

Absolutely love this course!

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I have tried several language courses, but the one I normally like (behind the wheel series) was not that great for Japanese because the native speaker spoke too fast (actually too slow and then too fast, never the right speed).

I was starting to get really negative about the prospect of ever learning Japanese. I have succeeded in other languages such as Spanish and even Russian, and so I was beginning to think it was just me. And losing confidence and feeling like you are not making any progress is of course is a very bad thing for learning languages. Because usually at that point you don't continue (and why would you?).

And then I did another search on audible and this came up. I thought I'd give it a try because I can always get a refund... and I was not disappointed. I am happy to pay the asking price. I definitely won't be asking for a refund, it's totally worth it!

Note that I'm only half way through the course, but I'm so pleased with my progress so far, I thought I'd write this review now to show how happy I am with it.

I found myself answering correctly about 90-95% of the time (which I think is surprising in itself). I often got things 100% correct. But I can't say that I never made any mistakes. It was good to have many reminders about the existing words. So there is lots of revision in this course.

I don't think I'll need to listen to it more than once. So it is a foundation course and it gets you to construct sentences with your new verbs and nouns right from the very beginning. I think the repetition alone helped me to learn the particles (which I would always inevitably forget).

I found Paul Noble's grammar explanations and explanations about sentence order to be extremely helpful. So it was not just a list of words repeated like some other courses are.

It doesn't have as much vocabulary as behind the wheel japanese, but what it does cover it covers well.

It's way better than Michel Thomas (which seems to me to be very awkward because the learners don't know what they are doing, they're completely lost, thrown in the deep end so to speak...at least with the Russian version they are).

I think it is better than Pimsleur too. Because there are more explanations about what is going on with the grammar (but it is very easy to follow what Paul is saying).

I came into this course with some basic knowledge already, but you could equally do it from nothing. I was actually able to listen to the course at about 1.15 to 1.20 speed, which knocked a complete hour off the total time. So it became an 11 hour course.

I look forward to "next steps Japanese", also with Paul Noble. I have already purchased it!

I'm so happy that I will be doing a youtube review of this course after I've finished it (or maybe I'll review both courses in a few weeks' time). So you'll be able to see that on my youtube channel "learn a language with leslie".

I want to say a special thanks to Paul Noble not just for teaching Japanese effectively and simply, but for literally improving my attitude towards learning Japanese, boosting my confidence, giving me some much needed optimism with this language (Japanese). Perhaps Japanese isn't as hard to learn as they say it is after all? That's certainly the impression I get half way through the course. I was under the impression that Paul Noble made the Japanese course before the other languages but it does not appear to be so.

Needless to say, I'm impressed!

This course has suceeded where others have failed.

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What this book does well is teach you some basics that you could a silly expand upon. It doesn’t overwhelm and it goes at a great pace with lots of repetition to allow for learning. I have bought the second part to the course and I’m looking forward to continue learning.

A great start to learning Japanese

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I'm truly amazed on how much I can remember after listening and practicing with this book.

Indispensable for beginners. 10 / 10!!

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I enjoyed this book, because to me how to change tense is important. I can learn vocabulary elsewhere, but a lot of other books don’t teach change of tense as systematically as Paul did. Although to me, I find the entire couse could be shortened, as he included a lot of reviews. But I guess it’s a way of learning a new language. I recommend this book.

It’s not a vocabulary book, but you get to learn how to change tense.

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