Transparent Japanese Premium Edition is an immersion course that enables learners to take basic vocabulary and quickly progress to more advanced comprehension and use. Grammar, vocabulary, reading, listening, and conversation practice are emphasized through Japanese texts, videos, and stories. Transparent Japanese Premium Edition is a full language course with a lesson plan designed to develop your conversational fluency in a new language. The Transparent Premium learning system features: •An intuitive "book interface" format •Lessons covering over 15,000 Japanese words and phrases •Full-motion immersion video •Native speaker audio •Interactive conversation practice with play-back •MP3 audio for iPods and other players •Interactive games •Online proficiency tests •Personal progress tracking Each lesson follows a simple and effective three-step process: •Build your vocabulary base with the integrated Byki learning engine. Create custom vocabulary lists from Premium's lesson content. •Explore native language texts, videos, and stories as you immerse yourself in the Japanese language. •Produce spoken Japanese by participating in conversational role-plays and dialogs. Record your lines, then play the entire conversation back. Transparent Japanese Premium Edition will help you: •Rapidly build and retain a Japanese vocabulary base •Develop listening comprehension •Learn to read and write in Japanese •Learn to express yourself in spoken Japanese As you progress through Premium's lessons, you'll find yourself communicating in Japanese without having to think about it - just like you do in English! System Requirements: Windows: Windows XP Service Pack 2, Windows Vista or higher. Macintosh: Mac OS X version 10.3.9 or higher with Safari. iPod® or MP3 Player for Byki Pod files: iPod Video or nano required to display pictures and play sounds. Other MP3 players can play sounds, but may not support picture display.