We’ve combined our popular One Minute Languages courses into a bundle and are making these available for a hugely reduced price. Each course normally costs £5 (French, Greek, Italian, Japanese and Mandarin are £10 as they include additional bonus items), but we’re offering the entire One Minute Languages library for the reduced price of £37 (+VAT). You can learn the basics of sixteen languages for less than the price of a coffee* per language!
Topics covered include:
saying hello and goodbye
basic words including yes, no, please, thank you
saying your name and asking other people what they’re called
talking about language – say that you’re learning the language and that you speak a little
counting 1-10
asking people how they’re feeling and answering the question yourself
other common phrases including happy birthday, good luck, I love you
If you’d like to be able to communicate in basic Catalan, Danish, French, Gaelic, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Luxembourgish, Mandarin, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Turkish then click here to take advantage of this offer or view the whole range of One Minute Languages available individually.
*What’s all this about “less than the price of a coffee”?! Well, a Venti Cappuccino in Starbucks in the UK costs £2.65, and we’ve reduced the price of each course to £2.31. Obviously a coffee is priced differently depending on where you purchase it, but we think this is a good deal anyway!
We’re delighted to announce the availability of the Premium version of One Minute Japanese. This premium version includes the following elements: the lesson guide lists all the words and phrases taught in the series; the enhanced podcasts allow listeners to view the words and phrases on iPod screens and computers using synchronised flashcards; the quick quiz podcast allows listeners to test their understanding of the material covered in the course; and the One Minute Japanese: Take-Off Time show provides a full review of all the language in a handy audio file, ready to take on board your flight!
The Premium podcast can be purchased for £10.00 GBP from our membership page. As a special opening offer we’re offering a 25% discount. Use coupon code OML2009 at checkout and get these materials for £7.50 GBP. This coupon code is valid until 23 January 2009. If you’re already a Radio Lingua premium member, you can add One Minute Japanese to your membership from your Control Panel.
With our One Minute Languages courses we aim to teach the absolute basics of a particular language and try to opt for the easiest way to say a particular phrase. Often it's not possible to go into the intricacies or nuances of a language, especially not in lessons of around one minute. We also aim to keep the choice of phrases as uniform as possible across the range of languages.
Following comments from listeners we've decided to replace a couple of phrases in the earlier episodes of One Minute Japanese. Some listeners who are experienced learners of Japanese commented on our choice of phrases in lessons 2 and 3, and we've since discussed this further with Japanese teachers.While the phrases we had chosen were grammatically correct, we've decided to change them.
Specifically, we've changed the following:
arigatou gozaimasu as a more formal version of arigatou (lesson 2)
iie as a simple form of "you're welcome", in addition to do itashimashite (lesson 2)
watashi wa nihongo ga wakarimasu as a more natural way of saying watashi wa nihongo ga hanasemasu: in Japanese it is assumed that if you 'understand' (I understand: wakarimasu), then you will also 'speak' (I speak: hanasemasu) (lesson 3)
chotto instead of sukoshi as it is natural with wakarimasu (lesson 3)
We've uploaded "reposts" of each episode (2 to 5) in the podcast feed and these will be downloaded automatically if you use iTunes. Each of the episodes on this blog now have the correct links associated. Given that episodes 4 and 5 had an element of review, these have also been replaced.
Please note that if you used any of the original phrases you would be understood by a native speaker, but we wish to ensure that the content of our courses is as accurate as possible and would like to thank those listeners who contacted us about the phrases chosen originally. We'd also like to apologise to learners for any inconvenience.
こんにちは – konnichi wa – hello! Welcome to One Minute Japanese from the Radio Lingua Network. In this podcast we’re going to be teaching you the basics of Japanese. The great thing about this language course is that you’ll be learning all you need to know in just 60 seconds – or thereabouts! Each one-minute language lesson will equip you with just enough Japanese to help you get by in lots of situations, either on holiday, or on a business trip to Japan. One thing’s for sure: you’ll be guaranteed to impress native Japanese speakers by speaking their language! Our course will be broadcast on Wednesdays, starting 1 October. In the meantime, visit our website on http://www.oneminutelanguages.com
We’ve combined our popular One Minute Languages courses into a bundle and are making these available for a hugely reduced price. Each course normally costs £5 (French, Greek, Italian, Japanese and Mandarin are £10 as they include additional bonus items), but we’re offering the entire One Minute Languages library for the reduced price of £37 (+VAT). You can learn the basics of sixteen languages for less than the price of a coffee* per language!
