JPN 2200 2nd-Year Japanese 1 Fall 2001

M-F 7th period, CSE E221 (Wednesday, 1317 Turlington; Friday 225 Little)

Instructor: Ann Wehmeyer

Office: 472 Grinter; tel. 392-7082

E-mail: wehmeyer@aall.ufl.edu

Textbooks
Daily Schedule

Syllabus (PDF file)

Yookoso Book 1 & 2 Kanji Study Materials, MIT

Nihonjin no raifu-sutairu, Segments
 

08/31/01 Visit to Hokkaido and travel-related sites

Visit the following inns, and write a brief description of the one you like best.

Toyako Prince Hotel
Toya Kanko Hotel
Chisan Hoteru Susukino

Visit the following site for views of what to see there.

Travel Photos

Visit the following sites for information on transportation and lodging in Japan.

Japan Ryokan Association
 Shinkansen
East Japan Railway Company
Japan Railways Group
Japan Travel Bureau
Japan Travel Bureau USA


 

09/07/01 Plan a Trip
 
Visit the Japan Travel Bureau website, and select a trip. Start by clicking on "Kokunai Ryokoo," then make your choices. Print out the plan for the trip you've put together.

Japan Travel Bureau
 

 

09/14/01 Using Online Dictionaries

We are going to use Jim Breen's WWWJDIC Server to translate Segment 1 from Haroo! Furusato. This dictionary server allows several different look-up methods, and contains a data-base of quite a few dictionaries, including scientific and place-name dictionaries. Please refer to the class handout for the text and for instructions. You can write out the translation by hand or on a word program to print out and turn in at the end of class. Alternatively, you can e-mail me your translation (wehmeyer@aall.ufl.edu).

 

10/05/01 Japanese Homes

Visit some of the following sites, and write up one paragraph telling about something you learned. These sites give a historical view, from ancient to current trends in living space design.

  • Shikokumura: click on Minka-tanboo, and then visit some of the ancient houses
  • Paint-House: an innovative approach to interior space. Click on "rifoomu o okangae no kata wa kochira e;" then click on "rifoomu de kanau yume ga arimasu."

 

11/30/01 Travel into and in Japan

Narita Airport Customs Inspection--Streaming Video with "Custom-kun"

Sean Cocoran's Japan Summer 2001

 

Gateway pages:

Keiko Schneider's Bookmarks
Japan Information Network
Jim Breen's Japanese Page

Reading Japanese:

Reading Tutor (copy and paste any Japanese text here to read it)

Rikai.com (click on Japanese-->English and follow instructions)

Eva: Japanese-English Dictionary

Jim Breen's WWWJDIC Server

Lambert Shomaker's WWW version of KANJIDIC by Jim Breen

English to Japanese Index to the above

Jeffrey's Kanji look-up

Other web sites for Japanese language and culture:

JPN 1121 Spring 2001 page

Tanabata (movies, interviews on the Star Festival)
Association of Teachers of Japanese (study abroad, etc.)
JP Net at MIT
East Asian Libraries Cooperative, Ohio State
Japanese at Georgia Tech
Guide to Japanese Computing, Univ. of Washington
UF Japanese Studies Alcove
Ken Ujie's Teaching Materials

Try this culture quiz: items you may not recognize! Quiz Japan

List of 500 Japanese Counters

Japanese Counters: pronunciation in combination

Japanese Studies:University of Sydney

For Study Abroad:

Association of Teachers of Japanese (study abroad, etc.)

University of Michigan Study Abroad Information Resources Page

For Holidays:

Holidays by month and season

National Holidays

Nihon no matsuri to horidee gaido

Schauwecker's Guide to Japan: Holidays

Japanese Holidays (includes Valentines Day)

Web sites for Shinto

Shinto Online Network Association

Shinto and Japanese New Religions

Blessing by a Shinto Priest

Japanese stories:

Momotaro, The Peach Boy  (Japanese audio, Japanese text and English translation)

Word Processing:

Shodouka (access any web site in Japanese and get graphic text presentation)
Word processor, translation software (NJWin, NJStar Japanese WP, for Windows IBM)
Global IME (Windows users: input Japanese to web pages, e-mail, and Microsoft Word 2000)

J-Text download (search for Jpn Word Processor J-Text)

Japanese Food Etiquette

Etiquette: what NOT to do
Etiquette, space, ohashi

Audio Sites:

MBS Radio News (audio with Japanese text contents, updated 5 times a day)
Yomiuri News Stream (audio with Japanese text outline)
Nikkei Satellite News (audio and video on VDO player)

Japan in Florida:

Consulate General of Japan in Miami

Mac-user Downloadable Japanese language learning materials:

You may download the following programs, among others, from the Japanese-related Projects at Purdue University site: