Internment 1941, FW: NPR story

From the national public radio show Wednesday afternoon,

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126557553

 

[opening text of the story]

When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, the U.S. government took action at home. People of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast were forcibly removed from their homes and taken to desolate inland areas of the U.S. Some 120,000 men, women and children were placed in internment camps for the duration of World War II.

 

[---another facet of Japanese language, culture, diaspora]

grammar shown in video segments of "mame shiba"

The Mameshiba videos, http://dogatch.jp/anime_kids/mameshiba/top.html

This list shows chapters and grammar patterns to which they
apply. Many of them work as examples of ウn desuイ as well.

Chpt 15 edamame ュ relative clauses
Chpt 16 Mameshiba theme song ュ te-kureru, toki, vocabulary
Chpt 17 ュ Green peas - tte for reporting speech
Chpt 18 ュ cashew nuts - te-shimau
- coffee bean ュ transitive/intransitive verbs
- peanut ュ to conditional
Chpt 20 ュ boiled beans ュ honorifics / humble speech
Chpt 22 ュ tiger bean ュ vocabulary

We also used the ウKotoba no ojisanイ videos, although they are longer and a
bit harder to understand. For Genki, I found they worked well in the following chapters.

Chpt 13 ュ potentialsュ ra nuki, /www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO6bqBxs0oQ

Chpt 14 ュ counters, www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6FZGX-Lsk8&NR=1

Chpt 20 honorifics, www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-mV-YrgrX0&feature=related

English support for ERIN GA CHOSEN (exchange stu. in JP)

the English website for "Erin's Challenge! I Can Speak Japanese" is now available.
http://erin.ne.jp/ or http://www.jpf.go.jp/e/urawa/e_j_rsorcs/erin
 
- 228 video clips will show natural Japanese conversation and contemporary Japanese culture
- Many new contents including original 41 video clips of "Learning Onomatopoeia via Manga" and 633 pictures of "Let's see", a section to introduce Japanese culture.
- Exercises with 2,161 questions will fully support Japanese-language learning.
- Users will be certified as Grand Master with 30 consecutive correct answers to Culture Quiz and can virtually experience Japanese culture in "Let's try" simulation games for 25 lessons
- When users register as members, they can record their study development,