Track One - Michel Thomas Japanese Language

Click play to listen to Michel Thomas' Japanese course

Might be completely different from ours, but still Japanese
people call it "ise creemu" at least!

Michel Thomas approach as you probably know teaches you a language by asking you questions in your native language and let you answer them in the target language. In this case, the course is for English speakers who want to learn Japanese.

Track One gives you an idea of what the course is about, it also mentions that although Japanese language doesn't have that much similarities with English, it encourages you not to think of the Japanese language as an alien language, to do so, it gives you some examples of words in common English has with Japanese.

Kimono, a word meaning "cloth", it is somehow popular among English speakers. It comes directly from the Japanese language.
Karate, another Japanese word that we use in our everyday language. It might be different from how we pronounce it though.
Karaoke , a song in a pub.

On the other hand, Japanese language took some of its vocabularies straight from English, but after adopting them to their own pronunciation. They don't have any distinction between R and L sounds. And they also tend to stash a vowel between each two consonants.

Kamera, meaning "camera"
Digikame, short Japanese version of "digital camera"
Hoteru/Hotelu, meaning "hotel" of course.
Isu Creamu, meaning "ice cream"
T-shatsu, meaning "t-shirt"