We are now officially back to school.
It's funny after nine years of teaching, I still find myself antsy on the first day of school.
I can never get use to the first day of school.
But, I am fully excited to develop and endure new relationships with my current students.
So, to make my life much easier, to get better attention, and to make class time fun,
I decided to utilize as many you tube videos in class.
There are TONS of videos that we can all use in our classes.
I'm starting with this one.
Title:
"Explanation of all the Japanese Alphabets"
By: edufirejapanese
He seems like a young student but He does know what he is talking about. I'm sure he's a Japanese language learner himself and he does a great job explaining the nuts and bolts of the Japanese writing/language system.
One thing that bothers me is his description of Katakana characters.
He believes Katakana characters have become more widely use in the recent generation.
Katakana characters have been in use since Heian period by buddhist monks. It was utilized thoroughly for Telegraphs and business correspondences through Meiji and parts of Showa period.
They are still in use now to transcribe foreign language words and to label animals, plants, scientific terminology and onomatopoeias. (Katakana characters maybe less in use now than earlier generation..)We do all need to stress to our students that Katakana characters are still a necessity in learning Japanese especially if they are interested in living in Japan.
I'm sure we can pause the video and clarify that point!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katakana
Katakana was developed in the early Heian Period (AD 794 to 1185) by Buddhist monks from parts of man'yōgana characters as a form of shorthand. For example, ka カ comes from the left side of ka 加 "increase". The adjacent table shows the origins of each katakana: the red markings of the original Chinese character eventually became each corresponding symbol.[9]
I'll be introducing more videos that I'm using in class!
It's funny after nine years of teaching, I still find myself antsy on the first day of school.
I can never get use to the first day of school.
But, I am fully excited to develop and endure new relationships with my current students.
So, to make my life much easier, to get better attention, and to make class time fun,
I decided to utilize as many you tube videos in class.
There are TONS of videos that we can all use in our classes.
I'm starting with this one.
Title:
"Explanation of all the Japanese Alphabets"
By: edufirejapanese
He seems like a young student but He does know what he is talking about. I'm sure he's a Japanese language learner himself and he does a great job explaining the nuts and bolts of the Japanese writing/language system.
One thing that bothers me is his description of Katakana characters.
He believes Katakana characters have become more widely use in the recent generation.
Katakana characters have been in use since Heian period by buddhist monks. It was utilized thoroughly for Telegraphs and business correspondences through Meiji and parts of Showa period.
They are still in use now to transcribe foreign language words and to label animals, plants, scientific terminology and onomatopoeias. (Katakana characters maybe less in use now than earlier generation..)We do all need to stress to our students that Katakana characters are still a necessity in learning Japanese especially if they are interested in living in Japan.
I'm sure we can pause the video and clarify that point!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katakana
Katakana was developed in the early Heian Period (AD 794 to 1185) by Buddhist monks from parts of man'yōgana characters as a form of shorthand. For example, ka カ comes from the left side of ka 加 "increase". The adjacent table shows the origins of each katakana: the red markings of the original Chinese character eventually became each corresponding symbol.[9]
I'll be introducing more videos that I'm using in class!
