{"id":46255,"date":"2016-11-07T14:54:23","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T05:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/?p=46255"},"modified":"2016-11-08T09:24:43","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T00:24:43","slug":"study-japanese-pronunciation-online-with-edx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/news\/46255","title":{"rendered":"Study Japanese pronunciation online with edX, starting today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Waseda University has designed an online course to help you practice pronunciation.<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever studied Japanese very hard but when you came to use it, you couldn&#8217;t get your message across?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Japanese Pronunciation for Communication | WasedaX on edX | Course About Video\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VUc39TwWPiM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Using our experience and expertise as an institution noted for Japanese language education, the course will cover pronunciation, one of the most challenging aspects for non-native speakers of Japanese. Professor Takako Toda of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsjal\/en\/\">the Graduate School of Japanese Applied Linguistics<\/a>, who will instruct the course, has long studied the difficulties of students learning Japanese. She has published a book entitled \u201cJapanese Pronunciation Lesson for Communication,\u201d also available in Chinese and Korean, and the sequel \u201cJapanese Pronunciation Lesson through Shadowing.\u201d Both publications are highly regarded and continue to be reprinted.<\/p>\n<p>Through this online course, you can:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Study at Your Own Pace<\/li>\n<li>Enjoy Shadowing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This course is starting TODAY!<\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"tx\">Course Information<\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"tx\">Course Title: Japanese Pronunciation for Communication<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"tx\">Lecturer: Prof. Takako TODA (Graduate School of Japanese Applied Linguistics, Waseda University)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"tx\">Starts: November 7th, 2016\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"tx f86\">\u00a0from 14:00 p.m.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"tx\">For registration: visit our course page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edx.org\/course\/japanese-pronunciation-communication-wasedax-jpc111x\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p># This is not a regular Waseda University class and no credit will be provided.<\/p>\n<h4>We will also hold registration explanation sessions as follows:<\/h4>\n<h5>Date<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Nov 9th\uff08Wed\uff0912\uff1a20-13\uff1a00<\/li>\n<li>Nov 9th\uff08Wed\uff0918\uff1a20-19\uff1a00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p># The same content is covered on both days<\/p>\n<h5>Venue<\/h5>\n<p>Waseda Campus Bldg. 24, 5F, PC room-A<\/p>\n<h5>Contents<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Introduction by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gsjal.jp\/toda\/english.html\">Professor Takako Toda<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsjal\/en\/\">the Graduate School of Japanese Applied Linguistics<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Online registration explanation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p># Participation in this session is not required for registration. We also prepared instructions of how to register in different languages. Please invite your friends to take our course!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"addicn\" href=\"https:\/\/waseda.box.com\/v\/nihongoxJ\" target=\"_blank\">Japanese<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"addicn\" href=\"https:\/\/waseda.box.com\/v\/nihongoE\" target=\"_blank\">English<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"addicn\" href=\"https:\/\/waseda.box.com\/v\/nihongoC\" target=\"_blank\">Chinese<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"addicn\" href=\"https:\/\/waseda.box.com\/v\/nihongoK\" target=\"_blank\">Korean<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"addicn\" href=\"https:\/\/waseda.box.com\/v\/nihongoT\" target=\"_blank\">Thai<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"addicn\" href=\"https:\/\/waseda.box.com\/v\/nihongoV\" target=\"_blank\">Vietnamese<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"addicn\" href=\"https:\/\/waseda.box.com\/v\/nihongoI\" target=\"_blank\">Indonesian<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waseda University has designed an online course to help you practice pronunciation. Have you ever studied Japa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":46254,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,117],"tags":[168],"class_list":["post-46255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-topic","tag-education-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46255"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46279,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46255\/revisions\/46279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}