a work-in-progress (under continual development)

The Essential Textbook: Guide to Japanese

Available on Amazon
A Guide to Japanese Grammar: A Japanese approach to learning Japanese grammar
My review of Tae Kim’s textbook:
First a word on theory:
Progress in Japanese will require the two “C”s – “commitment” and “curiosity.”
Obligate yourself to learn Japanese. And always stay “thirsty” (wanting to know what something means) by finding ways to enjoy your learning.
Best regards,
– Tori sensei
NOTE: As a work-in-progress I am continually adding to the project with content that I post first on the blog.
You can find that content in these places:
- Yasuke Adventures in Japanese (posts that add “meat” to other Japanese textbooks)
- Yasuke Tips (helpful language learning tips and techniques)
- Yasuke Tips for Teachers
(a list of textbooks that have helped the Yasuke project)
What Full Yasuke! does (to help teachers, tutors, students, and self-learners) is piece the above online textbooks together in a workable format. It also teaches you how to use those resources to a fuller extent. And it adds “meat” (supplemental content) to those textbooks so you have more to work with in a lesson.
It is being put together from my own lesson records teaching high school Japanese and private tutoring. So the goal is to give you a resource that you can use in a lesson setting (especially an immersion lesson – so lots of Japanese, little or no English).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
THE BEGINNING
- OUTLINE and Components of textbook: (listen, speak, read, write)
- Basics
- Hiragana
- Classroom expressions
- Time (min hours days days of week, data of month, first last)
- Space (direction, big small, near far)
- Visual (color etc)
- Audio, Touch, Taste
- Feeling
- Possessing
- Belonging/Relationship
- Basic vocab
- Grammar (tae Kim)
- Phrases
- Concepts (ex: uchi vs soto)
- Situations
- Survival Japanese
- Intermediate/advanced vocab
- Advanced grammar
- Intensive reading
- Kanji mnemonics and intensive writing
- Intensive script reading with shadowing (intensive listening and speaking)
- Grades 1-12 Japanese school immersion
- Teaching (and paid-to-play)
- Basics
- OUTLINE and Components of textbook: (listen, speak, read, write)
-
Basics
- Hiragana
- Classroom expressions
- Time (min hours days days of week, data of month, first last)
- Space (direction, big small, near far)
- Visual (color etc)
- Audio, Touch, Taste
- Feeling
- Possessing
- Belonging/Relationship
-
Breakdown
- Hiragana
- Classroom expressions
- Time (min hours days days of week, data of month, first last)
- Space (direction, big small, near far)
- Visual (color etc)
- Audio, Touch, Taste
- Feeling
- Possessing
- Belonging/Relationship
- http://japaneseteachingideas.weebly.com/family.html
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Basic vocab
-
Grammar (the big three; including Tae Kim)
- The Ultimate guide to Japanese grammar. SUPER in-depth (in other words, difficult) https://pomax.github.io/nrGrammar/#section-2-Verb_grammar
- Tae Kim’s Guide
- Imabi – a fairly complete free text
- Phrases
- Concepts
- Uchi vs Soto
- Video explanation of uchi vs soto
- https://cotoacademy.com/japanese-keigo/
- http://japaneseteachingideas.weebly.com/family.html
- Uchi vs Soto
- Situations
- Survival Japanese
- Intermediate/advanced vocab
- Advanced grammar
- Intense reading
- Kanji mnemonics
- Intensive script reading with shadowing
- Grades 1-12 Japanese school immersion
- Teaching (and paid-to-play)
Further breakdown
- OUTLINE and Components of textbook: (listen, speak, read, write)
- Basics
- TOOLS
- Like Rikai and these https://www.lingualift.com/blog/language-learning-chrome-extensions/
- For the teacher
- How to do immersion
- Total Physical Response
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TPR_Storytelling
- Hiragana
- Classroom expressions and immersion vocabulary list
- Time (min hours days days of week, data of month, first last)
- Space (direction, big small, near far)
- Also direction numbers (ex: ichi ban me #1, ni ban me #2)
- Visual (color etc)
- Audio, Touch, Taste
- Feeling
- Possessing
- Belonging/Relationship
- Uchi versus Soto
- TOOLS
- Basic vocab
- Grammar (tae Kim)
- Phrases
- Concepts
- Situations
- Intermediate/advanced vocab
- Advanced grammar
- Intense reading
- Kanji mnemonics
- Intensive script reading with shadowing
- Grades 1-12 Japanese school immersion
- Teaching (and paid-to-play)
- Basics
Beginning
(Instead of “lesson 1, lesson 2, etc.” I label them “stage 1, etc.” because I am merely suggesting the order of progression. depending on the student you will need to do more or less lessons on the same stage.)
Stage One :
Hiragana – Tofugu
Human Japanese – intro to Japanese language
Stage Two :
Kanji (Yes, Kanji now) – read the intro to kanji.
ManyThings.org signs (getting around and getting lost in Japan)
For review
Hiragana – Tofugu
Stage Three :
Language learning theory (no language learning theory/methods are perfect)
Language isn’t a formula, isn’t set. Its
Tae Kim (desu)
Visualizing Japanese lesson on sentences. (unit 1)
Start introducing songs.
Numbers using Mnemonics – Yakitori’s mnemonics
Calendar dates from youtube songs :
- Learn dates singing to Queen’s We are the champions (1st thru the 10th)
- Full Calendar song (poor audio) and a different clearer version of the same song
Putting things into hiragana in Anki flashcards
Stage 4 or 5 :
Tae Kim’s topic particle.
Visualizing Japanese Grammar’s “word order video” explain also dropping of subject object and particles
“Yoda-mind”
i dog named Sam have
Dog named Sam I have
dog named Sam have
Erin.ne.jp lesson #3 video and the practice video.
First Kanji. Suki.
Stage 6
Tae Kim. – Addressing people
Erin.ne.jp lesson 4 on “where”
showing a train station employee a map and asking which is such and such a place.
that and Doko desu ka, to get around in Tokyo.
And japanese phrases –
Jref’s useful expressions list
About.com’s list of Japanese phrases [10]
Stage 7
print the http://www.japanese-language.aiyori.org/ Picture dictionary pages in hiragana and use them to create vocabulary homework.
Japanese Verbs and conjugating (from AiYori)
Stage 8
start Tadoku
-use choko choko library
-use info on official japanese tadoku website (ie rules of tadoku)
Culture : getting around tokyo yamanote line game
Stage ? cheating! Yay!!
Cheating / hack — using particles with Onegai or Dozo to not have to use a verb
Stage ? idioms and phrases!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
jackpot!!! also this > http://ww8.tiki.ne.jp/~tmath/language/sp_adverbs.htm
Stage ??
lesson – self introduction
funny – self intro
good – self intro
Stage ??
Calendar and days of week
interactive (from Marugoto)
Stage??
verbs
verb conjugation video series
AWESOME resource list to pull more from
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