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=-=-=-=-= Setsubun readings:
I wrote folowing reading materials for my student, Learning Japanese as a heritage language.
--K Okuda, Japanese Children's Society
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2009-01-31
setsubun & more materials
http://minnanokyoza
=-=-=-=-= Setsubun readings:
2009-01-28
short video stories - Japan (1998) and Korea (2005)
Dear colleagues:
I invite you, your students and fellow scholars to view, download, excerpt or repurpose from the following collection of 3 to 10 minute video segments I've gathered online. Once I learned how simple it is to string clips together and add a title and credits for online uploading, I went back and prepared my materials to share. I encourage each one of you to start a free account at one of the video hosting services and experiment, too:
vimeo; video.google.com (owns YouTube, now, too - thus crosslistings and search results), teacherTube.org, among so many, many others
--Guven Witteveen
I invite you, your students and fellow scholars to view, download, excerpt or repurpose from the following collection of 3 to 10 minute video segments I've gathered online. Once I learned how simple it is to string clips together and add a title and credits for online uploading, I went back and prepared my materials to share. I encourage each one of you to start a free account at one of the video hosting services and experiment, too:
vimeo; video.google.com (owns YouTube, now, too - thus crosslistings and search results), teacherTube.org, among so many, many others
--Guven Witteveen
St. Johns, Michigan USA
HIGHLIGHTS
[summer 2005 study tour] http://koreanstudies08.googlepages.com/kr2005video.html
<> History procession, central Seoul
<> Drum lesson at performing arts hall in Seoul
<> High school yearbook views
<> Calligraphy lesson
<> Banquet foods
<> Serving tea
<> Conceptual artist
<> folk performing arts village at...
<> Anseong summer view from the air
[spring 1998, earlier released on VHS as "Social Sketches in Japan"]
http://viewjpn.googlepages.com/sketches1998.html
<> Introduction; Old city center
<> Temple interior
<> walking/talking tour of Temple grounds
<> Teaching high school English
<> High school memories
<> Family life in regional city of Takefu (rechristened Echizen-city in 2005)
<> Small business owner's experiences
<> Foods: home and restaurant
<> Shrine visit
<> Remembering one's ancestors
<> Local health care
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2009-01-12
BBC story: Rent-a-friend in Japan
A short article you may wish to excerpt for students.
...Duncan Bartlett discovers that money really can buy you love in Tokyo.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7818140.stm
Here's one segment of the story:
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...Duncan Bartlett discovers that money really can buy you love in Tokyo.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7818140.stm
Here's one segment of the story:
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Rent-a-friend in Japan | |
| The right pet ...First you pay a deposit and a hire fee. Then you are issued with a leash, some tissues and a plastic bag and given some advice on how to handle your new friend. Kaori is a pretty waitress who regularly spends her Sunday afternoons with a Labrador. They go for a walk in the park if the weather is fine, or if it is wet they just snuggle up in front of the TV in her apartment. "When I look into his eyes, I think he's my dog," Kaori told me. "But when I take him back to the shop, he runs away from me and starts wagging his tail when he sees the next customer. That's when I know he's only a rental dog."
...Cry for help ...Mr M.O. from Shizuoka near Mount Fuji called upon the services of I Want To Cheer Up Ltd because he needed a father. Mr M.O. has been blind since birth and had a number of concerns that he felt he could not speak to others about. "I kept it all inside and couldn't deal with the criticisms that had been directed at me by my parents and teachers," he testified. After some discussion, the company sent an older man to have dinner with him. "Usually I can't open up when I meet someone for the first time but on that occasion, I felt I was really talking with a normal father. I'll use the service again," he said. Loneliness is a problem faced by many people on these crowded islands. But the Japanese are prone to believe that, in the right circumstances, money can turn a stranger into a friend... at least for a couple of hours.
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