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. More recent articles, however, come with two formats: original text and text with pop-up dictionary.

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.
No.	Original Text	With Furigana		With Dictionary
01	Mt. Everest Clean Up	Furigana		Dictionary
02	Watchdog Robot	Furigana		Dictionary
03	Husband in Japan	Furigana		Dictionary
04	Parents-in-law	Furigana #1	#2	Dictionary #1	#2
05	Child rearing	Furigana #1	#2	Dictionary #1	#2
06	Awa no muko e	Furigana #1	#2	Dictionary #1	#2
07	Ray Charles	Furigana		Dictionary
08	Dental treatment	Furigana #1	#2	Dictionary #1	#2
09	Whales	Furigana		Dictionary
10	Honda FCX	Furigana		Dictionary
11	Hair Color	Furigana		Dictionary
12	Homeless in Japan	Furigana		Dictionary
13	Sukiyaki	Furigana #1	#2	Dictionary
14	Babies	Furigana		Dictionary
15	Population	Furigana		Dictionary
16	Chilean miners			Dictionary
17	Missing Centurians			Dictionary
18	Chinese Supercomputer			Dictionary

Japanese TV Drama - Kekkon Dekinai Otoko Scripts
Title	File
Episode 01 - Characters	Kanji Furigana Sheet: Characters
Episode 01 - Script 1	Kanji Furigana Sheet 1
Episode 01 - Script 2	Kanji Furigana Sheet 2
Episode 01 - Script 3	Kanji Furigana Sheet 3

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
09/29/2010	Lesson 4 (PDF)	04_discourse	04_reading
11/01/2010	Lesson 5 (PDF)	05_discourse	05_reading
12/22/2010	Lesson 6 (PDF)	06_discourse	06_reading
02/11/2011	Lesson 7 (PDF)	07_discourse	07_reading
03/17/2011	Lesson 8 (PDF)	08_discourse	08_reading
04/28/2011	Lesson 9 (PDF)	09_discourse	09_reading
09/14/2011	Lesson 10 (PDF)	10_discourse	10_reading
09/14/2011	Lesson 11 (PDF)	11_discourse	11_reading
11/02/2011	Lesson 12 (PDF)	12_discourse	12_reading

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 Vista/7 users

Click here for detailed information.

Windows XP users

Global IME with Japanese Language Pack or Far East Language Pack might be on the System CD-ROM.
Click here for more detailed information.

MAC OS X (ten) users

Japanese Fonts are already on the System CD-ROM
Click here for more detailed information.

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