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- JapaneseForEveryone© CD-ROM Ships|Butler Consulting
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- Contact: Ken Butler, President
- Butler Consulting, Inc.
- 8-16-11 Kinuta, Setagaya-ku
- Tokyo, Japan 157
- Telephone: 81-03-3416-0070
- AppleLink: BUTLER.C.DVJ
- U.S. Office:
- 2199 So. Broadway
- Grand Junction, CO 81505
- Telephone: 303-245-5462
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- Tokyo, Japan -- May 9, 1991 -- JapaneseForEveryone, the first serious language
- learning program to take advantage of the full range of Macintosh® interactive
- technology began shipping on May 1, 1991.
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- Developed by Kenneth D. Butler, Harvard Ph.D., former professor of Japanese at
- Yale, program founder and director for ten years of the Inter-University Center
- for Japanese Language Studies in Tokyo (administered by Stanford University),
- and a pioneer in technologically based language learning methodology, the
- CD-ROM HyperCard®/MacroMind Director®-based program is the equivalent of 225
- 800K floppies, and features digitized sound, "talking faces" animation,
- extensive interactive dialogues, and total "mouse-click" operation.
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- The focus of the program is on the "structural particle patterns" of spoken
- Japanese and on situationally based dialogues with a business slant that use
- these patterns. The materials are organized on a graded basis, with the early
- lessons devoted to learning the Hiragana syllabary through animations
- demonstrating the stroke order, and to acquiring productive abilitiy in
- speaking Japanese in such areas as greetings, introductions, asking and giving
- directions, taking a taxi, and telephoning. The fifteen lessons of the program
- present all of the patterns and vocabulary of basic spoken Japanese in easily
- acquirable form.
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- "JapaneseForEveryone provides the foundation for a lifetime of speaking
- Japanese," said Butler. "The entire program can be completed in 150 hours, and
- if used on a highly intensive basis you can achieve a full competency in
- speaking basic Japanese in as little as three weeks. The program definitely
- provides the fastest way to competency in spoken Japanese."
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- Butler Consulting, Inc. has tracked several of the people who used Japanese
- ForEveryone in its final "beta" form.
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- One person, a Stanford University student, had finished his four years at
- Stanford but had not fulfilled the foreign language requirement for graduation.
- He came to Tokyo and completed the program in exactly three weeks, then
- remained in Japan for six weeks using the ability in spoken Japanese he had
- acquired, but with no additional formal study, and then returned to Stanford
- and passed Stanford’s spoken Japanese proficiency exam.
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- Another person, an accountant with Price Waterhouse in Tokyo, purchased a
- “beta” disc of the program on December 15, 1990 and used it on a semi-intensive
- basis over the Japanese New Year’s holidays, then continued with it after
- returning to full-time work after the holidays, and completed the program on
- February 15, 1991—-in exactly two months. He achieved results similar to those
- of the Stanford student and has since highly recommended the program to a
- number of other foreign business people in Tokyo.
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- JapaneseForEveryone runs on any Apple® Macintosh computer (except the Portable)
- with 2 megabytes of RAM, System 6.0.4 or above, and an AppleCD SC CD-ROM® drive
- or equivalent third-party drive with the Apple CD-ROM software Version 2.0 or
- later. It runs specially well on the new Mac Classic.
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- Butler Consulting, Inc. specializes in developing and marketing CD-ROM language
- learning courseware for the Macintosh computer. In addition to Japanese
- ForEveryone, the company has recently also begun shipping in Japan "Total
- English", a 3-disc CD-ROM set based on a series of Japan Ministry of
- Education-approved junior high school English texts and programmed in color
- with extensive interactive animation and digitized sound.
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- JapaneseForEveryone has a suggested retail price of $449/¥59,900. It is
- available at special reduced prices in the U.S. from Educorp, 800-843-9497;
- Intellimation Library for the Macintosh,1-800-346-8355, and Maya Computer,
- 800-541-2328. In Japan it is available directly from Butler Consulting, Inc.
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