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#Nihonjin no shiranai nihongo year series#

“I think reading aloud and writing for five or ten minutes a day is OK. This does not necessarily mean spending a great deal of time studying, though. “You can’t remember just by looking at the words, so write them out.” You have to get used to the pronunciation of a foreign language, which has sounds that aren’t in your own language.” It is also important to write new vocabulary out by hand. Umino also recommends that beginning students use words immediately after learning them by practicing saying them aloud. There are perfect moments for quoting lines from Star Wars and there are times when it will just be baffling.” Umino says that it is fine to do so, but that there is a time and place for putting that language into action. The Japanese the Japanese Don’t Know students pick up a lot of words from popular culture, including films, anime, and manga. (From Nihonjin no shiranai Nihongo) Practice, Practice, Practice

There were a lot of mistakes in your homework.

“Sometimes, if you gauge the situation and decide that it’s OK to use a little Kansai-ben, then that can bring you closer to the person you’re speaking to.” The ability to smoothly switch between standard and nonstandard language varies from person to person, so students should decide for themselves what approach suits them best. Umino is also reluctant to lay down any ironclad rule on speaking. On the other hand, learners need to be able to understand both textbook and real-life Japanese. “I’d tell them, ‘I like Kansai-ben, but there are some Japanese people who hate it!’” She suggests that it is safer to speak standard Japanese, because its neutral register makes it acceptable to anyone. Umino mentioned how some beginner students had asked her to teach the Kansai dialect as spoken in Osaka. One recurring theme in the manga is the mismatch between the highly controlled language in student’s textbooks and what they hear in their everyday lives, which is often nonstandard or colloquial.

Although it became apparent that not all students were volunteers, many of them being forced to learn by their companies or parents, she soon came to enjoy the lively multicultural atmosphere of basic-level classes. As she explained in an interview with, she made the switch to instructing foreign students because she thought it would be fun to teach people who had chosen to learn. Umino began by teaching Japanese to Japanese students at an Osaka high school. (From Nihonjin no shiranai Nihongo) Standard is Safest

Japanese people count things differently depending whether they’re animate or inanimate.

But in China, tiao (条) is used to count both rivers and snakes….

A snake is ippiki (一匹) because it’s an animal.

Remember that something long and thin is ippon.

We call these words for counting things josūshi (助数詞).

An apple is ikko (一個) and a carrot is ippon (一本).

#Nihonjin no shiranai nihongo year series#

While it was written originally for Japanese readers, the manga format makes the series quite approachable for foreign learners. Students grill Umino with testing questions, and the discussions regularly veer into linguistic and cultural differences between Japan and their own countries. They cover such areas as keigo (honorific language), counter words, and the history of hiragana and katakana. There are now four main entries and a supplementary workbook in the series-which has sold more than 2 million copies-as well as a television adaptation. The manga also appeals through comical misunderstandings and cross-cultural communication with a cast of enthusiastic international students. As the title Nihonjin no shiranai Nihongo (The Japanese the Japanese Don’t Know) indicates, on one level it was a chance for Japanese people to rediscover their own language. When the Japanese language teacher Umino Nagiko turned her classroom experiences into a manga, created with her friend Hebizō, it became an instant bestseller. Can Haruko survive her first few days as Japanese language instructor? Will the students learn from Haruko?Watch drama online for free.Nihonjin no shiranai Nihongo (The Japanese the Japanese Don’t Know) When Haruko shows up for her first day as a Japanese language teacher she discovers that the school is for foreign students learning Japanese! Her students asks Haruko questions about her own Japanese language that makes Haruko realize that she doesn't even fully comprehend her own native language. He hands her the textbook book which is for elementary school students. However, the teacher first requires Haruko to work for three months at a private school. One day, she meets an old high school teacher who suggests that that Haruko would make a fine Japanese language instructor & offers to help her get a job at a public school. Haruko Kano (Riisa Naka) works as a "charisma salesperson" at a clothing store for girls in Shibuya, but aspires to become a teacher.