“Kanji Anonymous”
A proposed decentralized club for learning Japanese that anyone can set up anywhere.
Mission: to fill the world with Japanese schools.
Category: How To Teach Japanese
Advice and knowledge for teaching Japanese
Erin.ne.jp is super useful and free. It doesn’t get much better than that for a japanese teacher (japanese tutor) looking for online resources. Which is why I already wrote about it being a great Japanese teaching resource (especially for immersion lessons). This Yasuke Tip will show you how to get all of the juice out of it.
A very quick write up of a topic I hope to delve deeper into later… Erin.ne.jp, the Japanese teacher/tutor’s Swiss Army Knife.
On the surface this website might seem to only match self-study and for only certain kinds of students. But let’s take a closer look.
Let’s say you want to know the difference between two similar Japanese words. For example, 新し と 新たな.
You can google “新しと新たなの違いは” and get good results. But you can also try Yahoo’s ChieBukuro (Knowledge Bag) to dig deeper. Here’s how.
Japanese teachers, Japanese tutors, this one might just be what you were looking for!
Taking Japanese lessons with a tutor? You can use these phrases too!
(Side note: This tip will be included later in Full Yasuke! Our textbook of Japanese and Guide to teaching Japanese. Check it out!)
Let’s take a look!
If it is your first time here – I am a non-native Japanese teacher. (years of Japanese/ Japanese University grad)
I am currently teaching at a small private high school that encourages innovative methods.
For me, teaching Japanese is like coming home. It is like giving back.
In my senior year of high school my Japanese teacher was Puerto Rican. He was also my best Japanese teacher and is (based on their Japan Bowl results) one of the best Japanese teachers in the U.S.
I owe him a lot. A whole lot.
So for me, teaching others is like paying forward what he did for me.
Teaching Japanese is an interesting road.
The more I teach the better I understand the languages advantages and challenges myself.
Japanese is a neat language.
One goal of this site is to record my adventures teaching Japanese. And hopefully what I write might help some other Japanese teachers and language learners.
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