Japanese phasebook scenarios

Courtesy of the travel guide series, Roughguides.com
http://www.roughguides.com/website/shop/products/Japanese-Phrasebook.aspx

learning Japanese - radio feature story

http://www.theworld.org/?q=language
from the radio program, "The World"
 
see also, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOvfz4T2_6s
seems so popular in the U.S.
 
Another anime songs to use in a conversational Japanese class,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1AvAvsuX8M
(a nice anime fantasy)

shared project & discussions - high school students

Consider using "voice thread" in which all users can add comments and questions to any material placed online (movie, slideshow, audio, text). The comments/questions can be voice, text or drawing!

http://voicethread.com/#home

--- Guven Witteveen, sjmiAT hotmail Dotcom

Re: in search of ....

Posted by: "Tae Murakoshi" taekomura@yahoo.com   taekomura

Mon Dec 15, 2008 12:25 am (PST)

I know this topic has been introduced before, and I thought I kept it for the future use; however, I am asking you all again for your help in finding several discussion sites for high school students globally.  We are highly motivated and have a keen interest in having friends all over the world, though very inexperienced right now, to connect and discuss whatever while improving our English skills and gaining experience through online interaction with foreign high school students.  The benefits for both foreign students and Japanese students will be unmeasureable in many ways as you may agree; the both Japanese and English skills will improve for both sides through discussion and some debates. 

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well used manga - learning Japanese language & culture

(1) Asaki Yumemishi by Waki Yamato
(2) Buddha by Osamu Tezuka
(3) Orochi by Kazuo Umezu
(4) Hyooryuu Kyooshitu by Kazuo Umezu
(5) Doraemon by Fujio Fujiko
(6) Chibi Maruko-chan by Momoko Sakura
(7) Maison Ikkoku by Rumiko Takahashi
(8) Verusaiyu no Bara by Riyoko Ikeda
(9) Azumanga Daio by Kiyohiko Azuma
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= more books
(1) Atashinchi by Eiko Kera
(2) Nana by Ai Yazawa
(3) Seitoshokun by Yoko Shoji
(4) Azuki-chan by Chika Kimura & Yasushi Akimoto
(5) Oishinbo by Akira Hanasaki & Tetsu Kariya
(6) Hanada Shoonenshi by Makoto Isshiki
(7) Kobo-chan by Masahi Ueda
(8) Hachimitsu to Kuroobaa by Chika Umino
(9) Hikaru no Go by Takeshi Obata & Yumi Hotta
(10) Ookiku Furikabutte by Asa Higuchi
(11) Raki Suta by Kagami Yoshimizu
(12) Rurouni Kenshin by Nobuhiro Watsuki
(13) Toripan by Nanko Torino

buzzwords of Japanese for 2008

students might find these latest buzzwords interesting:

http://singo.jiyu.co.jp/ and http://u-ryukogo.jp/award.html
2008 Grand prizes are awarded to "グ〜！" and "アラフォー."

Japan's veterans -WWII prisoners in Siberia

Weekend Edition Sunday, December 7, 2008 · For Japanese Soldier, The War Went On — Today marks the 67th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The Japanese surrendered four years later, but Japanese soldiers captured by the Russians in Manchuria were held as prisoners for more than five years after World War II.

More than 500,000 Japanese soldiers were taken to Soviet penal camps and forced into slave labor. Independent producer Robert Rand tells the tale of one of the surviving Japanese soldiers.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97920789

searching for postal codes in Japan

http://www.post.japanpost.jp/zipcode  [in Japanese only]
See also, http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2224.html

Ainu events 2008

A. Lewallen [via www.japanfocus.org Dec 4, 2008]

Indigenous at last! Ainu Grassroots Organizing and the
Indigenous Peoples Summit in Ainu Mosir