Learn and Teach Japanese: 2015

songs to practice Japanese; aid memory; have fun

More than 50 songs are included in the "Japanese for Elementary School Students" (Shougakusei no Nihongo) Book/CD set.

You can view the Table of Contents and hear 3 audio samples at http://www.jessiplus.com/jessi/book.list.of.songs.html

The home page is http://www.jessiplus.com/jessi/

A book review from Oshirase, Volume 12, No. 1: Winter 2004 is available at http://www.jessiplus.com/jessi/book-review.html

2015-11-02

long video - Tokyo & student protests

Beginning students of Japanese may benefit by seeing 1 minute of the 1 hour 54 minute video recording in order to show young people standing up to the recent central government law about government secrecy.

Intermediate students may benefit by seeing selected points in the movie to learn vocabulary or to reflect upon social conditions these days.

Advanced students may benefit from the unfiltered, natural Japanese of this context recorded "in the wild."

Here is an excerpt from the blog article where the video appears:

Source Article, http://seaa.americananthro.org/2015/11/student-protests-return-to-tokyo/

---EXCERPT

After Prime Minister Shinzō Abe proposed the State Secrecy Act in 2013, anti-nuclear activists and legal and media scholars were outraged, viewing the law as a serious attack on press freedoms and government transparency. In response, there were intermittent protests, usually as part of the anti-nuclear demonstrations through which the Students Against the Secret Protection Law (SASPL) generated both large numbers in their demonstrations and media attention in their effort to block its passage.

Direct link to video, 1:54, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udN0s4ITAPo

2015-10-28

high school summer Japanese support

annual program via Youth For Understanding:

spreading the word to students about opportunities to apply for the 2016 Youth for Understanding
scholarships to study in Japan this summer.

Links to the scholarships are below. Note the first two on this list
require a $3,000 contribution towards tuition but the Kikkoman Scholarships
are full scholarships (student pays Visa fees and needs personal spending
money). There are 3 Kikkoman National full scholarships and 14 Kikkoman
FCCLA full scholarships (students must be dues-paying members of Family
Careers and Community Leaders of America).

Please let me know if I can provide any additional materials for you or
your organization. We do have brochures, posters, flyers, etc. and I am
happy to have them sent to you. Please let me know if you are interested. I
would greatly appreciate any thoughts you may have on how to recruit high
school students of Japanese for these scholarships.

Japan-America Friendship Scholarship ($3K contribution by student)
http://yfuusa.org/scholarships/japan-america-friendship-scholars-jafs-17.php

Japan-US Senate Youth Exchange ($3K contribution by student)
http://yfuusa.org/scholarships/japan-us-senate-youth-exchange-jusse-18.php

Kikkoman National Scholarship - Full Ride (3 in total)
http://yfuusa.org/scholarships/kikkoman-national-scholarship-20.php

Kikkoman FCCLA - 14 full ride scholarships for members of FCCLA
http://yfuusa.org/scholarships/kikkomanfccla-scholarship-11.php

Field Director - Illinois
Youth For Understanding USA
(p) 815.274.5253 (f) 989.777.3270 | yfuusa.org