☆FOR JAPANESE LEARNERS☆コミュのNew web site for learning Japanese

Hello, all! My name is Tony, and I teach Japanese at the University of Georgia (U.S.).

I'm not very happy with most of the Japanese textbooks that are available, so I've started to create my own web site to teach Japanese. I've only just begun writing most of the content, so the site isn't really ready for people who want to use it to study. What I'm working on is also very low level, introductory material, so it is probably below the level of most people in this community.

I'm trying to get people to come check out the site, however, as I'm hoping to get feedback to help me make it the best Japanese-learning site on the Internet. Some of the ways that I present material is very different from most text books, and I want to know what Japanese language learners and Japanese teachers think about it.

Anyone who is willing to help me out, please come to:
http://tonysensei.com/

Thank you! (^-^)/

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[1] mixiユーザー 03月27日 08:30

thanks for the rikai tip

[2] mixiユーザー 03月27日 09:04

rikai-chan is pretty wonderful, isn't it? I really, really wish that I had something like that when I was learning Japanese... =)

[3] mixiユーザー 03月27日 11:35

Hey!
Thank you for making a source. I've taken a quick look through the site and I enjoy it so far -- the best thing I like is that you immediately jump into some useful vocabulary and use kanji at the same time instead of romaji. (I hated this about lots of Japanese books!)

One thing though is that the use of "simple" and "complex" seems a little odd. Is it easier to memorize than just saying they're -ru verbs for your students?

[4] mixiユーザー 03月27日 13:16

Hello Tony@UGA,

I saw your site and totally agree with your idea of implementing the internet learning experience with the language learning process. I've been working on a similar project of my own so I'm deeply interested in researching learning techniques that have been effective for various people. I'd be glad to work with some like-minded individuals like you sometime.

[5] mixiユーザー 03月27日 19:13

CYNDii,
Both textbooks that I've taught from call them る verbs and う verbs, but many of my students seem to trip over the fact that not all verbs ending in る are る verbs, and of course most of the う verbs don't end in う (and they ALL end in an 'u' vowel sound!). If you want to refer to the endings then they should be called "-eる/-iる" and "other" verbs, or something like that, but then you have to resort to romaji... =P And you still have the problem that there are some synonym pairs that can be either type, such as かえる, depending on which meaning you intend. Anyway, I want to turn students away from easily mistaken analysis of the last syllables of the verb, and instead have two distinct categories that I can drop each verb into. "Simple"/"Complex" is the best naming pair that I came up with (based of course on the fact that the complex verbs usually require an extra step in morphing into new verb forms), but if anyone has any other suggestions it certainly isn't too late to change that.

キャット,
Cool! Thanks for checking out the site! I look forward to it.

[6] mixiユーザー 03月28日 05:30

Here's my URL if you want to check it out! I hope we can talk more.