College of the Siskiyous

National Consortium for Teaching about Asia

Japanese Audio Files

The following audio files were compiled for Geography 29 Special Studies (Japanese Language and Culture), taught at COS during Spring 2005 and supported by NCTA. Please feel free to use these files for non-profit educational use.

Hiragana - 9 weekly listening exercises covering the basic hiragana

Verbs - Learn 10 verbs and their basic conjugations (polite present, polite present negative, polite past, and polite past negative tense)

Phrases - Practice some easy dialogs!

Kanji - Learn about 25 basic kanji

Funded by the NCTA 2005 Initiative Grant

Audio files by Sato Hiroki and Fujii Shoko. All rights reserved.
©2005 Linda Freeman. Permission freely granted for non-profit educational use.

I would like to express my deep thanks to NCTA and to Hiroki Sato and Shoko Fujii who helped guide me in this adventure.