Friends of NAKAMA

This is a site for users of the textbook "NAKAMA 1" and "NAKAMA 2." (Houghton Mifflin Company .)  Through this site, we plan to make various information about the books available such as additional teaching materials, communicative activities, teaching plans, etc.  We would  also like to make this site a place to exchange information among users.

"Let's Practice Japanese - Nakama version -" is finally released. This program runs on Windows. It contains five programs which were released as freeware for Macintosh: "Hiragana and Katakana", "Kanji Invader", "World Geography", "VKC/J", "Exercise on Japanese counters". This is not a free program, but we were able to keep it cheap. ($15)

More information is available at http://tell.fll.purdue.edu/info/LPJ/LPJ.html

 

Electronic Glossary

You can open these files in a spread sheet program or a word processing program. You can re-sort the glossary according to your own criteria with a spread sheet program.

NAKAMA1
 
nakama1.j-e.es.ps.present.hqx  (Macintosh) , nakama1.j-e.es.ps.present.zip (Windows)
Japanese-English glossary sorted according to the following criteria: essential vocabulary, part of speech, and order of presentation.   This list is useful when you make quizzes and exams to check which words have been introduced.
 
nakama1.j-e.alpha.hqx  (Macintosh) , nakama1.j-e.alpha.zip (Windows)
Japanese-English glossary in Japanese Gojuuon order.
 
NAKAMA2

Free software which can be used with NAKAMA

Hiragana & Katakana (Mac only)
HyperCard stacks which introduce students how to read hiragana and katakana.

World Geography (Mac only)
HyperCard stacks which provide practices with katakana using names of countries in the world and names of the states in USA.
Exercise in Japanese Counters (Mac only)
HyperCard stacks which provide practice in twenty different Japanese counters.
Vocabulary/Kanji/Conjugation Exercise in Japanese (VKC/J 2.0) (Mac only)
HyperCard stacks which provide practice in vocabulary, kanji, and conjugation of verbs and adjectives.
(The kanji and vocabulary set for Nakama 2 is now ready. Kanji lessons have been added to Nakama1. Download VKC system, Nakama1 set, and Nakama2 set to replace old ones. 1/28/2000)
 
Kanji Invader for NAKAMA 1 and NAKAMA 2 (Mac only)
An independent application which is designed to give practice reading kanji in a game setting. (It comes with the complete set of kanji and related vocabulary for Nakama1 and Nakama2.)
On-line Scrambled Dialogues for NAKAMA 1 (Windows and Mac)
On-line version of scrambled dialogues used in NAKAMA 1. This program is available for both Windows and Macintosh.

Resources for Kanji introduced in NAKAMA

Other resources which can be used with NAKAMA

On-line exercises for Nakama
Large amount of on-line exercises have been created for an on-line course in Hawaii. Contact preson: Prof. Satoru Shinagawa. (University of Hawaii, Kapiolani Community College)

Royalty-free clip art for foreign/second language instruction
A set of line-drawings depicting verbs, adjectives, and nouns are made available on WWW. You can freely download the drawings and use them for instructional purposes.

AV Resource Database for Japanese language instruction
A reimplementation of Royalty-free Photo Gallery for Japanese Language Instruction. It now contains over 700 pictures in a database and has a search function to retrieve necessary pictures using keywords in English or Japanese.
   
For general resources in teaching Japanese, check Association of Teachers of Japanese and Purdue University Japanese Project.
　
　

 

User contributions (teaching plans, syllabi, supplementary materials, quizzes, tests, teaching tips, etc.)

All files are in the PDF format which can be read by Acrobat Reader . If your computer cannot display Japanese characters, you need to down load Asian Font pack from Adobe's site.
 
1. Lesson plans (1997-1998) for Nakama1 by Ms. Fusae Ekida at Purdue University

Chapter 1 , Chapter 2 , Katakana , Chapter 3 , Chapter 4 , Chapter 5 , Chapter 6 , Chapter 7 , Chapter 8 , Chapter 9 Chapter 10 , Chapter 11 , Chapter 12 , Kanji , Review

These files contain daily lesson plans for the entire volume when she field-tested the pre-published version of NAKAMA 1. ( Fusae is now at University of Washington.)

2. Lesson plans (1998-1999) for Nakama1 from Prof. Nobuko Chikamatsu at DePaul University

3. Lesson plans (1997-1999) for Nakama1 from Ms. Matsuda at University of Washington

4. Lesson plans for high school using Nakama1 by Ms. Yoko Koriyama of University of Iowa

 

5. Lesson plans for NAKAMA 2 by Prof. Ayako Yamagata (University of Iowa).

6. Kanji Exercise Sheets for NAKAMA 2 by Prof. Masako O. Doublas (California State University, Long Beach).

(This is a section to be created by users of NAKAMA. Please send your contributions to Seiichi Makino , Yukiko Hatasa , or Kazumi Hatasa .)

 

Errata

In this section, last minute errors will be listed to minimize user's confusion. If you find other errors, please let us or the publisher know. The errors will be fixed upon the next printing.

NAKAMA 1

NAKAMA 2

The second printing is now available which incorporated the previous error corrections.

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This page was created and maintained by Kazumi Hatasa and Yukiko Hatasa .

Last update: 11/28/2001