Note to teachers

This site is meant to be used as supplement materials for face-to-face instructions. The assumption is that you (the teacher) is there to faciliate the learning. Earlier part of studying can be done individually, but the communication part requires a partner.

This site tries to cover two communication skills. One is to express and understand location of things. The second one is to give and understand the directions. The grammar covers あります, てください、てto connect sentences.

Improvement from last version of Cyber Map Exercises is:

It contains graphics rather than tiles of hiragana/katakana
It expands to giving and understanding directions from just practicing with location
The structure is not linear and learners can choose to or not to have components before get to communication practice (i.e. audio, text, English translation, grammar explanation)
Although the needs are not real, there are open-ended practice that there are no set answers.

This site requires just READING of Japanese in a browser. If you want to know about Japanese encoding in computer, please refer to my SEATJ presentation page and Computing page from my Bookmarks Page.

Throught the site, JavaScript and DHTML are used to add interactivity. Please make sure the browser is enabled JavaScript and Cascading Style Sheet and the browser is version 4 or later.

To play audio, this version has two options to play. Majority of recent browsers come with Flash player in order to use exercises with FLASH, but if you don't, please go to Macromedia site at http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashplayer/ to download and install on to your computer.

If you need RealPlayer, please download free at http://www.real.com. (Look for RealPlayer 8 Basic on the bottom of the page.)

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