News
and/or Events for Everybody (Please e-mail me if you want to post something).
＊1/9/12: We plan to do "O-mochi-tsuki" as a Setsubun event in the cultural kitchen at RW at 6:30 on Friday, February 3. Please save the spot.
＊1/6/12: The 2012 Annual Japanese Language Contest Consulate General of Japan in Boston
＊12/19/11: Who's the Scrooge?, Should we turn back the clock?, a commentary, by a former Bates professor, Steve Hochstadt.
＊9/14/11: Free access for students to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, through a gift from the Lunder Foundation
＊3/27/11: Japan's earthquake & tsunami
An Albumn: Songs for Japan ($9.99) donated by various artists (Lennon, Dylan, Madonna, Lady Gaga, U2, Bon Jovi, Springsteen, Elton John, Justin Timberlake, and more) -- news
Bates Concert and interview with Prof. Hiroya Miura
＊2/24/11: Mi Shan Wong '11passed the new JPN proficiency test - Level 2. Congratulations!
For everybody
- Japanese
Language Table is held in Community
Hall 116 in New Commons every Thursday from 5:15
to 7 P.M.
- List
of Japanese Songs for CBB Japan Fair
- Genki
Web Site .
- Kanji
or Words Practice by
Duke Univ. (Select Genki 1, 2, Tobira、Intermediate JPN)
- Exercise
Vocabulary words & Kanji in Genki by Usagi-chan
- Erin-ga choosen on Web site
- Kanji site variety
- Smart fm (practice kanji and vocaburary words in Genki, Tobira, and others)
- Japanese Proficiency Test in general, in JPN or in Eng
＊N1~5 sample practices NEW
＊N3 (New level 3) practice: grammar/particles NEW
＊N4 (New level 4) practice (#1~8) : grammar/particles/verbs/adjectives/compositions NEW
- Explanation of Japanese Grammar
- Self-practice (Japanese Pod)
Dictionaries:
- Yahoo-jisho /Eiwa-waei jiten - - words
- Denshi-jisho Online - -words, kanji, sentences ＊
- Rakuten multi jisho - - words & kanji
- Kanji Bush Jiten - - kanji radicals chart & kanji examples ＊
- Kanji
jiten:Gahoh - - kanji (reading & meaning, example words, storoke order) You can look up a Kanji by the # of strokes. ＊
- Kanji Bushu code- - kanji radicals chart
- Dictionary - - Japanese names, law, science terms
- Kanji Dictionary Net- - kanji (reading & meaning, Joyo-kanji list, radicals, numbers of stroke order, list of difficult kanji, JIS sample tests, Windows' users only?) NEW
- JEDict: checking Kanji stroke, reaading, words, English meaning. (Mac Users only; can be used without wireless) ＊＊
- Hatena Keywords (searching for the meaning of words and expressions) NEW
JPN101 & 102
JPN201& 202
(schedule)
JPN301& 302
(schedule)
JPN401 & 402
Links
to other sources including Japanese newspapaers