[Japanese] My PowerPoint

[TisPACOtheGr8]

To make a rather long story short. I will be teaching beginner Japanese for a few weeks at my school. I feel I have a pretty legitimate understanding of the basic principles in the language. I feel confident that I can successfully teach a group of students the information they have requested of me and more. My first class will be sometime this week and I plan to give a lecture, present a PowerPoint and to do a few activities from when I first starting learning in a classroom environment.

I need critics to critique my work before I actually present it in front of a group of people.

I'm looking for people that know the language to some extent and those who do not. Please give your opinion

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NOTES:

All slides are in my words. I did not put slide 8 or 15 down because there not essential to the language and refer to our program.

Slide 11 is showing questions I feel some people will eventually have in there head.

My answers to slide 11;

1. Overall to simplify the reading and writing process. I will probably go in to more detail then this but you get the jisit of where I'm getting at.

2. No one system is used alone. Both Kana and Kanji are used together in daily literature, advertising ect... The only time you will ever see just Kana is in children books.

3. My answer to them for this is, I want them to get use to seeing the Kana as much as possible before the other guy takes over.

Feel free to throw in things you think that would make it better or fixes I can make.

[PAnZuRiEL]

Romaji isn't a Japanese writing system. It's a method of romanising the language.

Slide 5: Hiragana and katakana are not "symbolic alphabets", they are syllabaries. "Constant" isn't the word you want, it's consonant. The kana "hu/fu" is not pronounced with an English "f" sound, and likewise for "shi" and "chi".

Slide 6: When Japanese is written vertically, the lines progress from right to left, not from left to right.

Slide 7: katakana are also used for emphasis much like English capital letters; they are used to spell many names of Japanese origin; and they can be used in literature to connote that either the speaker or the listener doesn't understand the meaning of the word being said.

Slide 9: not "hon" characters, but Han characters - as in, the major Chinese ethnicity. Han-zi, Han characters. Kanji is NOT one-character-one-word by any means, I'd wager that the majority of words in Japanese are two-kanji compounds. Kanji don't have many different meanings individually, they have different pronunciations in different contexts. That's probably where you're getting confused. Different pronunciations, not different meanings.

Slide 10: romaji is from roomaji, ローマ字 - that is, Roman characters (analogous to Han characters). I have never heard of any past plans to use romaji to replace kana and question the source of this information.

Throughout your slides, your grammar is consistently poor and may cause confusion. Overall, I think it's of questionable quality at best, and still needs a lot of work. You don't seem to have all your facts straight.

[TisPACOtheGr8]

I thank you for your response. I will make changes immediately. I do have the ideas in my head, the problem from my perspective is putting it in to words that somebody can understand. I often mix up several English homophones and paraphrase between directional words.

I how ever do thank you for your Kanji explanation.

This should fix the direction misunderstanding.

Hiragana is traditionally written vertically but generally written horizontal. When writing horizontally it is written left to right and read from left to right, top to bottom starting on the right page and then the left page. When writing vertically it is read from the farthest right side of a page to the left, top to down , starting on the right page and then going to the left page

I think I used everything properly.

[Xeno Incognito]

Though it is a Japanese class, I couldn't help but notice the poor grammar and capitalization throughout the slides. It's rather nitpicky, but being as neat as possible will make the slide seem more professional.

#1: "The Writing Systems".
#3: When a student first starts learning the Japanese language, it is extremely crucial....
The Kana should be used whenever possible, once it becomes familiar to the student.
The student should make it their goal to...
#5: The other characters are formed by adding a consonant in front of the vowel... Fu(comma removed) may also be called Hu in some situations
#6: Women did not have the same education as men and were not allowed to learn Kanji. As a result, they developed their own writing system.
#7: Katakana is a lot more straight-edged and pays more attention to stroke order than Hiragana.
#9: This is a brief explanation of Kanji. Kanji is a more intermediate topic and is left out of beginner lessons. However, it is something you need to know.
In some literature, the pronunciation will be spelled out in kana above the Kanji. This is called furigana.
#10: Romaji is the romanization of the Japanese language.
We will not be using Romaji as it does not play a large role in Japanese society.
#13: There are the first ten basic digits. For 11-19, keep "Juu" and add a number to the ones place. For 20-99, use the numbers in the tens place (for example, "Ni-juu" for twenty and "San-juu" for thirty). The number "Hyaku" is used for 100.
#14: Once finished, try to memorize one row of the Hiragana chart a day. Create flashcards to yourself remember, and to quiz yourself.

Some sidenotes:
#6: I don't think women invented Hiragana, it just became popular among women...
#9: I'm not exactly sure, but I don't think parentheses are used around furigana.
#10: Romaji was actually developed well before WWII.
#13: The slide is worded very confusingly.