Reading Club

Welcome to the Reading Club.

4A Class students: Click here for Class Material

A variety of reading materials are collected and listed here for your use in order to improve your reading skills in Japanese. Each article is prepared in three different formats: original text; text with furigana; and text with Japanese-English dictionary (Click on the picture below to see an example screen shot).

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First, make sure that your computer can handle texts in Japanese. Then, go to the list and click on the title of the article you would like to read.

**READING CLUB ARTICLES**
Internet Explore works best with Furigana pages.
Class	Original Text	With Furigana		With Dictionary
*	1.Mt. Everest Clean Up	Furigana		Dictionary
	2.Watchdog Robot	Furigana		Dictionary
	3.	Furigana		Dictionary
4A	1.Husband in Japan	Furigana		Dictionary
	2.Parents-in-law	Furigana #1	#2	Dictionary #1	#2
	3.Child rearing	Furigana #1	#2	Dictionary #1	#2
	4.Awa no muko e	Furigana #1	#2	Dictionary #1	#2
	5.Ray Charles	Furigana		Dictionary
	6.	Furigana #1	#2	Dictionary #1	#2
4B	1.Dental treatment	Furigana #1	#2	Dictionary #1	#2
	2.Whales	Furigana		Dictionary
	3.Honda FCX	Furigana		Dictionary
	4.Hair Color	Furigana		Dictionary
	5.Homeless in Japan	Furigana		Dictionary
	6.Sukiyaki	Furigana #1	#2	Dictionary
	7.Babies	Furigana		Dictionary
	8.Population	Furigana		Dictionary
	9.	Furigana		Dictionary

4-A Class Material

This is a list of class materials used in the Japanese 4A Class.

If you choose to download a file, right-click on it and select the "Save Link As" option.

Date	Reading Material	Audio File (1)	Audio File (2)
05/05/2010	Lesson 1 (PDF)	01_discourse	01_reading
05/26/2010	Lesson 2 (PDF)	02_discourse	02_reading
09/15/2010	Lesson 3 (PDF)	03_discourse	03_reading
00/00/2010

How to Install Japanese Characters

You need Japanese fonts in your system in order to view Japanese characters (Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji) properly. You can download the Japanese fonts from the following sites.

Windows XP users

Global IME with Japanese Language Pack or Far East Language Pack might be on the System CD-ROM.
If it is not on the disk, please download Global IME from Microsoft web site.
(Select Global IME with Japanese Language Pack or Far East Language Pack)

MAC OS X (ten) users

Japanese Fonts are already on the System CD-ROM

Need to read Japanese text/websites? Try On-line Translation Service!

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