"The way to get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning."
-Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
Resources
1) Essays (care of Michael Syson)
2) None
i) Lessons 1 - 6
i) Hiragana/Katakana Practice Sheet 2:
Lessons 1 and 2 (Reading and Writing Section)
ii) Kanji Exercises 3-5:
Lessons 3 - 5 (Reading and Writing Section)
c) Hiragana/Katakana Practice Sheet 1
i) Refer to attached files below
d) Syllabus
i) Refer to attached file below
e) Content Details
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Table of Contents:
1) Preface
2) Main Content (Day 1-Segment 1)
3) The Japanese alphabets
4) How to practice the alphabets
5) To use or not to use Flashcards
6) Advantages and disadvantages of keeping one's accent
7) Comprehension Check
8) Assignment
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Table of Contents:
1) Preface
2) Main Content (Day 1-Segment 2)
3) How to remember Kanji characters
4) on-yomi and kun-yomi readings
5) More than the sum of its parts
6) How to say “I” (degrees of politeness)
7) How to say “I” (male and female)
8) のでnode and からkara
9) Attendance
10) をwo and にni particles
11) Comprehension Check
12) Assignment
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Table of Contents:
1) Preface 2) Main Content (Day 1-Segment 3) 3) 先生 (sensei) 4) SAN, KUN, CHAN 5) The advantage of using Japanese alphabets over ro-maji 6) 日本語 (nihongo) 7) nihongo or nippongo? 8) Significance of the syllabus 9) Comprehension Check 10) Assignment |
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Table of Contents:
1) Preface
2) Main Content (Day 1-Segment 4)
3) Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
4) Massive Open Offline App Courses (MOOACs) care of Usbong
5) 2 essential things colleges should teach
6) The point of going to a brick-and-mortar university
7) 質問ありませんか。(shitsumon arimasen ka)
8) The importance of saying the words out loud
9) Comprehension Check
10) Assignment
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Table of Contents:
1) Preface
2) Main Content (Day 1-Segment 5)
3) Handing a piece of paper
4) Ways to hand one’s passport
5) Receiving things
6) Exchanging business cards
7) Gestures without words
8) Comprehension Check
9) Assignment
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Table of Contents:
1) Preface
2) Main Content (Day 1-Segment 6)
3) Course Description
4) Learning Outcomes
5) Life-long Learners
6) Course Outline (Genki I Textbook)
7) Quiz Theme: Dates
8) Advice to college students
9) Comprehension Check
10) Assignment
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Table of Contents:
1) Preface 2) Main Content (Day 1-Segment 7) 3) Course Outline (Genki I Textbook): part 2 4) 日本語能力試験 (Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT)) 5) Suggested Readings 6) Helpful ICT Resources 7) Usbong Team Project 8) Comprehension Check 9) Assignment |
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Table of Contents:
1) Preface
2) Main Content (Day 1-Segment 8)
3) Helpful ICT Resources: part 2
4) Google Translate
5) Course Requirements
6) Quizzes and Assignments
7) Milestone Challenges
8) Comprehension Check
9) Assignment
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Table of Contents: 1) Preface 2) Main Content (Day 1-Segment 9) 3) Usbong Team Project 4) Peer Evaluations 5) Teacher Evaluation 6) Market Evaluation 7) Comprehension Check 8) Assignment |
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Table of Contents: 1) Preface
2) Main Content (Day 1-Segment 10)
3) Final Oral Exam
4) Self-Challenge
5) Synthesis Paper
6) Grading System
7) Classroom Policies
8) Consultation
9) 自己紹介 (Self-Introduction)
10) Comprehension Check
11) Assignment |
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Table of Contents:
1) Preface 2) Main Content (Day 1-Segment 11) 3) 自己紹介 (Self-Introduction) 4) はじめまして。(First encounter) 5) Social Duty vis-à-vis Individual Happiness 6) よろしくお願いします。 (“Please be kind to me.”) 7) お疲れ様でした。 (“Sorry I made you tired.”) 8) ありがとうございます。 (“Thank you (polite).”) 9) Comprehension Check 10) Assignment |
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Table of Contents:
1) Preface 2) Main Content (Day 2-Segment 1) 3) First thing at the start of every class 4) The Beadle 5) Family name + SAN 6) 改善kaizen 7) ¼ sheet of paper 8) Comprehension Check 9) Assignment |
13) None: Day 2-Segment 2-Quiz 1
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Play the role of a graduating student applying for an entry-level position at a multinational Japanese corporation in the month of October. The story may seem quite plain and ordinary, but the key is that the warmth one feels inside is true for you too. |
1) Preface 2) Main Content (Day 2-Segment 2-Quiz 1) 3) Assignment | 14) None: Day 2-Segment 3
| Table of Contents: 1) Preface 2) Main Content (Day 2-Segment 3) 3) げんきgenki 4) はい、げんきです。hai, genki desu. 5) いいえ、げんきじゃないです。iie, genki janai desu. 6) おげんきですか。Ogenki desu ka. 7) 英語eigo and ローマ字ro-maji 8) Comprehension Check 9) Assignment |
15) None: Day 2-Segment 4
___ | Table of Contents:1) Preface 2) Main Content (Day 2-Segment 4) 3) Greetings 4) Difference between “ohayou” and “ohayou gozaimasu” 5) 今日はkonnichiha and 今晩はkonbanha 6) さようならsayounara 7) 失礼しますshitsureiSHIMASU 8) またね!mata ne! and じゃね!ja ne! 9) Various ways to say “Good Night!” 10) Comprehension Check 11) Assignment |
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| Table of Contents:1) Preface 2) Main Content (Day 2-Segment 5) 3) Difference between “arigatou” and “arigatou gozaimasu” 4) Various ways to say “sorry” (degrees of politeness) 5) Various ways to say “iie” depending on the meaning 6) いってきます。itte kimasu. 7) いってらっしゃい。itte rasshai 8) Comprehension Check 9) Assignment |
17) None: Day 2-Segment 6 ___ |
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| Table of Contents:1) Preface 2) Main Content (Day 2-Segment 6) 3) ただいまtadaima; “I’m home.” 4) おかえり(なさい)okaeri(nasai); “Welcome home.” 5) るろうに剣心(rurouni kenshin) 6) The sword as a means to revitalize (or uplift) people (人を活かす剣) 7) Tell the truth or tell a lie? 8) 「おかえりなさい、剣心」「ただいま でござる」 9) Comprehension Check 10) Assignment |
18) None: Day 2-Segment 7 | Table of Contents:2) Main Content (Day 2-Segment 7) 3) いただきますitadakimasu; “I receive.” 4) ごちそうさま(でした)gochisousama(deshita); “Thank you for the meal (after eating).” 5) ですdesu and でしたdeshita 6) ありがとうございますarigatou gozaimasu and ありがとうございましたarigatou gozaimashita 7) はじめましてhajimemashite 8) どうぞdouzoよろしくyoroshiku 9) Lesson 1: 会話kaiwa; “dialogue” 10) かka or question mark (“?”) 11) Comprehension Check 12) Assignment |
19) None: Day 2-Segment 8
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| Table of Contents: 2) Main Content (Day 2-Segment 8) 3) 数字(すうじ;suuji); “Numbers” 4) Counting 1 - 10 5) 柔道juudou 6) Counting 11 - 20 7) “Rice Paddies and Math Tests” (Malcolm Gladwell’s book, “Outliers”) 8) Counting 30 - 100 9) The Scientific Method 10) Comprehension Check 11) Assignment |
20) None: Day 2-Segment 9
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| Table of Contents:2) Main Content (Day 2-Segment 9) 3) 時間 (じかん; jikan); “Time” 4) Telling the time: 1 o’clock~12 o’clock 5) 分(ふん; fun); “Minutes” 6) Telling the minutes: 1min~10mins 7) Telling the minutes: 11mins~30mins+ 8) A caution on seeing patterns 9) Comprehension Check 10) Assignment
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| Table of Contents:1) Preface
2) Main Content (Day 2-Segment 10)
3) Filipino Hinga
4) Definition of “hinga”
5) Limitation of words
6) Demonstration
7) The world as a mirror of our self
8) Living in the present
9) Comprehension Check
10) Assignment |
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