There are those students who, though able to understand their
instructors’ Japanese, read their Japanese textbooks, and speak with classmates
in Japanese, have few opportunities to apply what they’ve learned outside the
classroom. Still others, who enjoy frequent chances to use Japanese away from
a structured class setting, find that what they hear seems to conflict with what
they’ve learned in their coursework.
This site was created to provide precisely those students with an array of realistic conversational situations and separated by level of Japanese mastery. It is our fervent hope that these lessons provide valuable assistance in your pursuit of Japanese fluency.
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●Conversational Levels
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Conversations presented herein are categorized for beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels of study.
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●Text Presentation
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In beginning and intermediate level exercises, you have an option to show or
hide text that accompanies the audio. Kana and romaji text is shown in the
beginning level, and kana and kanji text for the intermediate.
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●Situations
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In the beginning and intermediate levels, conversations are segmented
into two to four scenes, which allows students the freedom to review a conversation either as independent sentences
or as an entire sequence.
At the advanced, or “real world” level, conversations are presented
only in their entirety, and are not separated.
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●Bulletin Board
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The Bulletin Board provides students with a forum for discussing
ideas about Japanese conversation with other students and asking instructors for further explanation about the concepts
and situations presented.
We also invite students to use the Bulletin Board as a place to offer your own
ideas and comments about Japanese expressions and their usage in “real life” Japanese. Finally, students
are encouraged to use the Bulletin Board for offering suggestions about the kinds of situations they would
like to see introduced on the site.
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※In order to make use of the Bulletin Board, students must first
register with the site. Registration is entirely free of charge.
Please note that the Bulletin Board is exclusively intended for use in the instruction
and study of Japanese.
Inappropriate use of the Bulletin Board may result in deletion of registration.
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