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[Gamer]

MIT OpenCourseWare | Foreign Languages and Literatures | 21F.501 Beginning Japanese I, Fall 2004 | Home

Kanji from study materials. (Illustrated by Carrene Winter Tracy.)
Course Highlights

Interactive study materials, in addition to downloadable readings, are available for this course.
Course Description

This course covers Lessons 1 through 6 from Japanese: the Spoken Language, Part 1 (by Eleanor H. Jorden with Mari Noda, Yale University Press, 1987), providing opportunities to acquire basic skills for conversation, reading and writing. The program emphasizes ACTIVE command of Japanese, not passive knowledge. The goal is not simply to study the grammar and vocabulary, but to acquire the ability to use Japanese accurately and appropriately with increasing spontaneity. Students learn Hiragana and Katakana (the Japanese phonetic symbols), then approximately 50 Kanji (Sino-Japanese characters) in this course.

So cool, might help a lot for beginning importers!

[Cryoma]

Problem is, that's Chinese.
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[Hatsumi]

Originally Posted by Cryoma

Problem is, that's Chinese.
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赤い

It's also Japanese.

[Cryoma]

I know, I'm just kidding

[Hatsumi]

Originally Posted by Cryoma

I know, I'm just kidding

lol It's a tough day at work for me today.

I think I'll download the course when I get home. I got through accelerated Intermediate Japanese in college before I had to quit and go back to work. I can never get too much review, you know?

And I have incentive now... My husband told me last night that he can wait on his new video card (he wants that new ATI one) so I can buy my Japanese Wii~! /cheer I'm so spoiled!

[Cryoma]

:B
I've never met any hardcore gamers like you two, it's kinda amusing.
Just don't be like this guy lol

YouTube - Blame Halo 3 - Spoof of Akon Sorry,...

[Hatsumi]

Originally Posted by Cryoma

:B
I've never met any hardcore gamers like you two, it's kinda amusing.
Just don't be like this guy lol

lol that video was awesome Yeah, we're kinda crazy. It's rare that I get to meet people who are as into this as we are...

[Cryoma]

Well this is the place I guess.

[Hatsumi]

So, back to topic... Has anyone downloaded this? I did and there are all these .xml files and when I open them, they're missing styles or something? I'm really kind of stupid when it comes to these things. Can someone tell me how to use them? I tried looking around at different stuff in the folders, but I couldn't figure it out.

[Lors]

I'm still wondering how you still have time for eachother while playing time-consuming games AND having a job to pay for them.

As for the course,

I might try it, just not right now, I am not supposed to be online now lol. My dad put a ban on the PC for a week or so. I am currently following real life lessons, I got the most basic part covered, it isn't that hard at all, not as hard as I thought it would be anyway. The Grammar is pretty easy; It's just the words, there is so many friggin words that have like 203-kazillion different meanings, and, ofcourse, there are way too many exceptions on the basic grammar rules.