Week 2

We have now just about completed the material in chapters 1 and 2 of BBC talk.
If you don't have the book yet, please try to get it ASAP. Either from Amazon or the BBC website. http://www.bbcactivelanguages.com/OurProducts/JAPANESE.aspx

Make sure that you complete all the exercises in those chapters - especially the Now You Are Talking section.

To recap - last night we learnt how to ask and answer about nationality and occupation, we also practiced yes/no questions as well as questions with nan (what) and doko/ dochira (where).

There is information on blackboard in the Vocab Building folder about these topics (the content may be slightly different but there is no harm in learning extra words!)

KATAKANA- by next week you should be able to recognise the basic katakana (without the sound changes or combinations) On Blackboard there are links to a number of websites where you can practice recognition with games.

In next week's lesson we will spend some time in the language lab (at the top of the Fountains Building) so you can familiarise yourself with the equipment there.

Any questions, don't hesitate to contact me.

Week 1

This week we studied what to say when meeting someone for the first time, had an overview of the language and started to look at katakana, learnt the names of a few food items and how to say "what's this?"

If you manage to get BBC talk Japanese before next week, look at chapter 1 and do as much as you can of that chapter.

Try to learn the first 25 katakana. You can test yourself here:
http://web.mit.edu/21f.501/www/kana/katakana/computer-terms/

http://www.learn-hiragana-katakana.com/review-play-katakana-game/

https://www.msu.edu/~lakejess/Kana_Page.html?bg=1

There are loads of links on this page to resouces for learning Japanese - try a few of them.
http://www.jpf.org.uk/language/links.php
There are also worksheets on Blackboard in the folder marked katakana, if you still haven't managed to log onto blackboard by next week, let me know. http://yorkstjohn.blackboard.com/webct/entryPageIns.dowebct

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