Description
This resource aims to enhance students’ learning of kanji by providing a series of video lectures that cover the kanji characters in lessons 1–5 of the Tobira textbook. The video lectures not only teach how to write kanji but also provide stories behind the kanji characters, so that students can memorize them in a systematic and meaningful way. They make kanji learning more captivating and fun!
Textbook
Tobira = Mayumi Oka et al., Tobira: Gateway to Advanced Japanese Learning Through Content and Multimedia, Kurosio Publishing (2009), ISBN: 9784874244470.
This table summarizes the kanji characters introduced in the videos:
| VideOS | KANJI |
|---|---|
| 1 | Tobira lesson 1: 市, 平, 伝, 別, 形, 決, 和, 的, 建, 美, 島, 差, 残, 特, 達, 温, 覚, 說, 選 |
| 2 | Tobira lesson 2: 比, 代, 必, 由, 合, 忙, 実, 性, 表, 昨, 相, 要, 晚, 短, 感, 難 |
| 3 | Tobira lesson 3: 他, 両, 当, 助, 声, 供, 呼, 苦, 法, 泣, 念, 直, 単, 発, 首, 連, 笑, 集, 解 |
| 4 | Tobira lesson 4: 与, 內, 正, 礼, 向, 成, 対, 例, 彼, 育, 係, 負, 速, 能, 現, 組, 勝, 絕, 関 |
| 5 | Tobira lesson 5: 以, 功, 失, 在, 米, 信, 客, 流, 得, 敗, 数, 続, 増, 億 |
Additional Resources
The stroke order animation in each video was created using the web application developed by Kanji alive (under Creative Commons license, CC BY 4.0). Students can learn more about the stroke order and search for the kanji in each lesson, e.g. using “text:jt:c1” to find kanji in lesson 1 with this Kanji alive web application.
