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The resources were funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Science and Training.
Easy and Fun!
Irasshai was designed to meet the needs of high school or college students as well as the needs of adult community learners and professionals who would like to acquire Japanese language and culture skills.
The 138 Irasshai video lessons get up close and intimate with viewer learners. Dr. Tim Cook, an Emmy award-winning instructor, takes students on a personal journey to where Japanese is spoken. Sometimes it’s predictable – inside a Japanese home or a Tokyo office building. Sometimes it’s less so – a sushi bar in Atlanta, a fishing hole in the Appalachians.
The Irasshai website provides access to additional language practice for each lesson, links to cultural journeys and further personal exploration of Japan-related topics.
This site was created to provide precisely those students with an array of realistic conversational situations and separated by level of Japanese mastery. It is our fervent hope that these lessons provide valuable assistance in your pursuit of Japanese fluency.
●Conversational Levels
Conversations presented herein are categorized for beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels of study.
●Text Presentation
In beginning and intermediate level exercises, you have an option to show or hide text that accompanies the audio. Kana and romaji text is shown in the beginning level, and kana and kanji text for the intermediate.
●Situations
In the beginning and intermediate levels, conversations are segmented into two to four scenes, which allows students the freedom to review a conversation either as independent sentences or as an entire sequence.
At the advanced, or “real world” level, conversations are presented only in their entirety, and are not separated.
●Bulletin Board
The Bulletin Board provides students with a forum for discussing ideas about Japanese conversation with other students and asking instructors for further explanation about the concepts and situations presented.
We also invite students to use the Bulletin Board as a place to offer your own ideas and comments about Japanese expressions and their usage in “real life” Japanese. Finally, students are encouraged to use the Bulletin Board for offering suggestions about the kinds of situations they would like to see introduced on the site.
