This is just a related thought.
I liked CNN News Listening so much that I want to do the same in another language. Is there anything similar for Japanese → French, or English → French? While I was looking into that, I ended up thinking about how unusual the English-learning market in Japan must be.
- Japanese → French simply has a smaller market than English. What exists is not published on a regular schedule.
- For foreign editions like English → French, there are web services, but I couldn’t find books.
- In every case, I couldn’t find anything that fits “a book, a fixed length and format, published regularly”.
In that sense, it seems I came across a fairly unusual textbook.