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Welcome to our site to share students’ work from the first to the fourth year Japanese language! The purpose of this site is to give you some ideas of what our students do in class and to create opportunities to share work by our students. Our program offers Elementary Japanese I and II (first year), Intermediate Japanese I, II (second year), Advanced Language and Composition (third year), and Advanced Language and Cultural Studies I to IV (fourth and fifth year). We have about 150 students enrolled in total for 2013-2014. Please click the classes which you are interested in and tell us what you think.

エモリー大学の日本語履修学生による作品集へようこそ!この作品集を通し、皆様に 学生が授業で何をやっているのかをご覧になっていただく機会を作れたらと思います。私達のプログラムでは、初級日本語、中級日本語、上級日本語読み書きのコース、上級日本語文化研究の授業を履修できます。2013年度は、1年生から4年生まで合わせると約150名の学生が日本語を学んでいます。上の1年生/2年生/3年生/4年生をクリックすると、学生の作品が見られます。よかったらどうぞ感想を残してください。

Farewell Karaoke Party

As the last Happy Hour in 2014 spring semester and the farewell party for graduating seniors, students organized a Karaoka party and enjoyed singing Japanese songs.

ランディさん、今年1年ハッピーアワーのリーダーありがとうございました。ユさん、来年のハッピーアワーのリーダーよろしくお願いします。

Dinner with the Emory Japanese Community

Throughout this semester, our Japanese program has been successful to bridge our students with the Japanese community at Emory. MBA students and their families, researchers at the Medical School and Yerkes, and students at Public Health participated in our programing by coaching job interviews and serving as speech contest judges and class guests. In addition, they offered their generous time for 10 students of JPN402 to conduct individual interviews to share their experience on the Tohoku Earthquake and discussed their views on the Fukushima disaster and Japan’s energy policy. To show our appreciation, about 25 people got together on April 18 and shared a more personal side with dinner. Japanese guests commented highly about our students language skills as well as their ways to see the current issues around Fukushima. We hope to have this support and engagement for our students from the Japanese community next year!夕食会1

 

かるた Karuta Night

Japanese Culture Club organized Karuta (Japanese card game) Night on Wednesday, April 9th. Students made their original cards and played Karuta.Karuta is a traditional Japanese card game which uses “yomifuda” (reading cards) and “torifuda” (grabbing cards). Leaders of the Japanese Culture Club (JCC) helped students of Japanese make their own Karuta cards and played together. Ten members from JCC and 40 students participated in this event. It was a great study break with Japanese snacks. We appreciate JCC to create great opportunities for hands-on experiences to learn Japanese culture throughout this year.

4月9日(水)にかるたナイトがありました。オリジナルのかるたを作って、みんなでかるたをしました。

2014 Japanese Speech Contest

2014 Japanese speech Contest was held at Emory University on Saturday, March 1st.  Six students participated from Emory.

Category 1

Category 2

Everyone did a great job and the following students won the prizes. Congratulations!

Category 1 (3 min speech)
1st prize: 「いただきます」と「ごちそうさま」by Yi Lin (Emory University)
2nd prize: Elderly Care in Japan by Eirene Lakshita (Georgia State University)
3rd prize: 私のちがう世界 by Akanksha Samal (Emory University)
努力賞(どりょくしょう): 私の大切な人 by Gyeong Ho Lee (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Category 2 (5 min speech)
1st prize: もったいない by  Julie Shen (Emory University)
2nd prize: 日本のドラマから習ったこと by Sherry (Yuan) Jin (Emory University)
3rd prize: 私の願い by Junzhe (David) Yu (Emory University)
努力賞(どりょくしょう):Learning Japanese as a Korean American by Kyungeuhn Park (Georgia State University)

The GATJ 2014 Nengajo Contest

みなさん、新年あけましておめでとうございます。Happy New Year!

Thank you everyone for sending the wonderful New Year’s cards (nengajo).  2014 is the year of horse. We sent 20 nengajo to the GATJ 2014 Nengajo Contest. Emory students won first and third places! Congratulations!

Here is the results of the GATJ 2014 Nengajo Contest:

  • First Place – Katrina Worsham

Katrina Worsham

 

  • Third Place – Janice Lee

Janice Lee

 

Here are some of the nengajo made and sent by Emory students:

Yanming YuAmie RheeMin Gi KimYang ChenyueYangting XuZhang XingshangYou Na HaCautlin Brennan

2014 New Year’s Cards (Nenga-jyo)

Time flies! We will have the last day of classes this Tuesday, December 10 and then have the final exams to complete this fall. We cannot wait to head home to celebrate the holiday season. As you know, January 1st is the biggest Japanese holiday with various New Year’s foods (Osechi), New Year’s parties (Shin-nen-kai) and New Year’s Cards (Nenga-jyo). As in the past years, our students created their own Nenga-jo this year! Some of them will enter the New Year’s Card Contest organized by the Georgia Association of Teachers of Japanese. We will see who will win the contest!

Yang ChenyueKatrina WorshamAmie RheeShijian Jin

 

The TE-form Video

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Miyake Harumi sensei, our new teacher for 2013-14, created a supplementary video for the TE-form. Since flash cards are built-in, students can practice how to make the TE-form orally while watching it. The TE-form is very important in building up structures and we hope that Miyake sensei’s video will help students to master the TE-form. She will create more videos later, so please stay tuned!

 

Origami Workshop

We had an origami event on Thursday, Nov. 14. This event was supported by the Masse-Martin funds, REALC, and Japanese Culture Club. About 50 participants including six people from the local community learned three types of Origami from an origami teacher, who is actually our student, Jonguk Lim (junior, political science major). With help from JCC origami experts at each table, participants followed a step-by-step folding by Jonguk shown on the screen through the document camera. Everybody did excellent! Many participants were first-time origami folders and enjoyed this meticulous multi-dimensional origami art. Thank you for all who helped this event.20131114_18215820131114_19453820131114_182119

Sushi Night

On Monday October 28, the Japanese program and the Japanese Culture Club (JCC) held a joint event “Sushi Night” in Few Hall. About 70 students participated in the event to learn Japanese table manners as well as a little history of Japanese Sushi. We welcomed Mr. Noguchi, a local sushi chef and each participant made their own California rolls with step-by-step instructions from Chef Noguchi and the leaders of JCC. For the first hands-on experience, many students were able to make amazingly beautiful rolls! Most students took pictures of their own rolls, enjoyed eating them, and took a picture with Chef Noguchi. This event was co-sponsored by the Dept. of Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures and the Emory College Language Center.

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