The aim of this leaflet

The aim of this leaflet is to introduce to you materials on Japanese pronunciation available in the Language Commons and to suggest ways to choose materials.

Materials in the Language Commons

• Multi-Media Materials
  The materials on Pronunciation in the Language Commons include various audiotapes attached to coursebooks and CD-ROMs. Another type of materials you may consider is Japanese learning websites.
• Music CDs
  There is a good collection of music CDs, which you can use to confirm your knowledge by checking the lyrics of songs of your choice after learning pronunciation.
• Other materials
  An important part of pronunciation practice is to listen. You can use the Chinese-Japanese, Japanese-Chinese CD-ROM dictionary at the Language Commons and listen to the recorded sound of Japanese words.

Note: See the next page to see which pronunciation areas are covered in these materials

Spoken materials that have Japanese transcript

1. Lyrics of music CDs at Language Commons (lyric file available near the cassette tape recorder)
2. Part of transcript of Japanese news available at http://www.nhk.or.jp/ (choose any title of NHK news with video file)
3. Whole transcript for Japanese stories available at
   http://www.so-net.ne.jp/storygate/join.html (click “osusume sakuhin”)

Note

This advice sheet is part of the Japanese Pronunciation series of leaflets supporting independent language learning, produced by the HKUST Center for Language Education Language Commons team. This leaflet was written by Shin KATAOKA in 2002. If you copy from this leaflet, please acknowledge the source. Thanks.