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About the Course: Once you know the basics, the best way to improve your Japanese is to analyze authentic usage examples of the language on a sentence-by-sentence, word-by-word basis. That is exactly what this section does. Most of these lessons might be called "short, annotated readings."
Each chapter of the course is independent. There is a quite a bit of variation in the subject matter, format, and degree of difficulty.
This material will be added to and updated on a regular basis, so check back often.
New Lessons - New Formats
Older Lessons
- Lesson 1: THE DESIRES OF THE GROUP SPIRIT GENERATION
団塊世代の希望 (Part 1)- Lesson 1 (Part 2)
- Lesson 2: “I’ll Only Be Living Here for a While.”
- Lesson 3: 現代の米国人の体格 Gendai no Beikokujin no Taikaku
- Lesson 4: Quality Control 品質管理
- Lesson 5: Children in Japan
- Lesson 6: The Slump in Sales 売り上げ低迷
- Lesson 7: Don't Hope for Much 関の山
- Lesson 8: Average Salaries 平均給与
- Lesson 9: Feeling Alone shimen-soka 四面楚歌, hitori-zumoo 一人相撲
- Lesson 10: Banishment -- tsuihoo 追放 / mura-hachibu 村八分
- Lesson 11: Don't Even Think About It 思い止まる
- Lesson 12: Are you experienced? 経験
- Lesson 13: The Declining Mathematics Skills of University Students
- Lesson 14: As if it were proper
- Lesson 15: International Law Moot Court
- Lesson 16: The Russian Arms Industry
- Lesson 17: Pictures of Mars
- Lesson 18: Napster and Other Free Exchange Services
