She wants to learn Japanese...again...

All things Japanese: drawing, reading, writing, naming our cat, changing the commands in her cell phone... Dd Lee wants to learn Japanese again. I say again but not that she learned it once and now wants to 'again', rather we began Japanese during the school year last year and she decided that Spanish was going to be enough for now. Well, she has had a renewed interest. She visited her friends in Oregon for a few days and they (sweet girls that I love!) are all about Japanese everything! I should have seen it coming! :)

So, now I am trying to put together a 'curriculum' for her with what we have. I cannot buy anything else for the school year, because it's all been bought based on what we planned on doing. We have quite a bit so I don't think that we will be lacking, however, the ability to teach it is another story for another time perhaps.

The books that we have I have found from used book sales or on paperbackswap. Here is a run down of our books:

• Japanese for Beginners. Yasuo Yoshida. ISBN 4050506475. Published by Gakken Co., Ltd. Copyright 1976
• Kanji & Kana. Wolfgang Hadamitzky and Mark Spahn. ISBN 0804813736. Published by the Charles E. Tuttle Company, Inc. Copyright 1982
• Japanese for All Occasions. Anne Kaneko. ISBN 0804815674. Published by the Charles E. Tuttle Company, Inc. Copyright 1990
• Pocket Japanese Dictionary. Periplus Language. ISBN 0794600484. Published by Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd. Copyright 2003
• Living Language Conversational Japanese. Revised by Hiroko Storm. ISBN 0517590662. Published by Crown Publishers, Inc. Copyright 1993
• Living Language Japanese Dictionary. Revised by Hiroko Storm. ISBN 0517590670. Published by Crown Publishers, Inc. Copyright 1993

The Living Language Japanese books also have audio tapes with them. Good assortment of good books, in my humble-and-uneducated opinion :) Now I need to figure out how to make a curriculum and schedule to help her learn it. She is pretty good at doing things on her own and I honestly have no clue about Japanese. I used Byki for a while for all of us to try and learn various languages...Japanese was hardest!

I am going to be taking the advice found at DonnaYoung.org for lesson plans to try and make this work. Unfortunately, Lee may have to do this mostly on her own. If she really wants to learn she can do it. I will try and post the lesson plans when I am done as well. Also our/her progress ;)

And before I forget, there are a ton of links for Foreign Language sites that are free (as well as some inexpensive to expensive lol) on my Links by Subject for Schooling page. Scroll down to Foreign Language.

* Here is the tentative schedule we have started. I explained to Lee that she will most likely have to do this mostly by herself. She was receptive to the plan :) I will of course be here for her in any way that I can. It is only up to Week 6 (which is the second review week) but it will be continued/revised as we go. *