Revision of Welcome to Japanese with Tony Sensei! from Thu, 07/16/2009 - 11:10

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Tony's JPNS 1001 course will be starting on Aug 17th! If you are interested in studying along with us, please register on this site, and join the "JPNS 1001 @ UGA" and "Genkier users" groups! Please also join our Google Group! Doing so will ensure that you get important updates about the course. You should also read this forum post, and download the course syllabus. You may also want to follow @tonysensei on Twitter. If you have any questions, please email Tony, or (even better) ask a question in the JPNS 1001 forum.

What is this site?

This is a Japanese learning community, created for Japanese learners of all levels. We support each other in our studies by asking and answering questions, sharing learning resources and tools, and by just providing a helpful environment. Please join us!

Please note that the site is currently being redesigned, and so functionality may not be 100%...well...functional just now. Nonetheless, please feel free to register and play around on the site. Things should start to become more active when Tony's Elementary Japanese course starts up in mid-August.

What can I do here?

First off, I will gradually be adding more Japanese learning content over the next few months. To start, to the right are feeds to my podcast, "Genkier", which is a series of lectures related to the content of a popular college-level Japanese language textbook. In the next few days, I will be adding files that you can use with the Anki flash card software for vocabulary learning and review. I will also be making copies of tests, quizzes, and various classroom handouts available on this site, so you will be able to use those to measure your progress in learning Japanese.

Please either register on the site, or log in using your Facebook account. After doing so, you can join any of the current groups. If you like, you can even create your own group! The Create Content menu above will let you create lots of other stuff on the site as well. Please take a look!

If you are interested in studying along with Tony's Elementary Japanese course in the fall, please use the box to the right to subscribe to our JPNS1001 Google group. That will put you on the mailing list that I will use to make announcements related to that course.

Future plans

As the site evolves, I hope that we will be able to gather more study materials submitted by our members. My goal for creating this site is the development of a community of Japanese learners who can help each other with study tips, encouragement, and information exchange. I also hope that we will attract native Japanese speakers and other educators who are interested in helping Japanese language learners.

I hope that this will become a community-directed site, evolving according to the needs and wants of its users. If you have ideas or suggestions, please consider posting in the JwTS users forum.