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Child’s Play
By Michelle | November 14, 2007
In the process of language-learning (an arduous, painful task), I’ve found that materials made for native-speaker children can be really useful. For instance, this Asahi Shimbun site introduces words and phrases to kids that have come up recently in current events/discourse. Examples include:
Mainichi Shimbun has a similar word list. this one aimed at adults (so the explanations are a little harder to understand, and the words themselves are a little more obscure–or rather, just not as obvious):
Topics: Japanese |
Link Summary
- http://www.asahi.com/kids/kotoba/
- http://www.asahi.com/.../TKY200711130058.html
- http://www.asahi.com/.../TKY200711090129.html
- http://www.asahi.com/.../TKY200711020168.html
- http://www.asahi.com/.../TKY200710180269.html
- http://mainichi.jp/word/
- http://mainichi.jp/wo...ddm003010067000c.html
- http://mainichi.jp/wo...dde041040102000c.html
- http://mainichi.jp/wo...ddm001020136000c.html