Quizess and other media to support SOAS LC students of Japanese to acquire scripts. Also contains LC Kanji list of 1000 kanji.
LC New Kanji List
By Shin Okajima
What is it?
It is the only kanji list that exists:
1) to introduce the kanji that are relevant to the vocab in the particular order our students learn (tied with our specific syllabus so as to enable recycling and revising process in a firmer acquisition). The need for kanji exercises and vocab/grammar exercises to help reinforce learning for students have been a topic of conversation in higher education settings.
2) to contain 1000 kanji that are relevant to JLPT 2/N2 level, selected from 日本語出題基準（国際交流基金）to cater for those who want to work towards taking the exam.
3) It has associated exercise material, in a form of “Kanji readers” and an quiz app on the platform moodle. The kanji readers let the students develop skills to “get familiar with more kanji than the one they know, acquire skills to guess the kanji quite accurately, and then get confirmations from teachers or contexts”, where the cycle of learning is completed. The quiz app is designed to be tried again and again, to track how the students have done, and while doing so, students are revising the grammar and vocab at the same time.
4) The kanji list is of course also reflected and incorporated into apps that are designed for grammar and vocab acquisition and retention too, in another self study moodle available only for SOAS students.
The lists
1) There are two lists. Beginners set is 600, and Intermediate 400, totalling 1000.
2) It will cover the whole 8 levels in our Japanese programme at LC.
3) Students will learn 60 kanji a term for the duration of the Beginners set. Then 50 kanji a term.
4) The list is to be used with in conjunction of Hadamitzky & Spahn Kanji & Kana dictionary, moodle kanji quizzes (copies for handwriting is also available) and associated kanji readers.
The moodles
We have three self enrolling moodles (you need to log in to the moodle, or use the link, then you have the choice to enrol on to them to access materials. The kanji list, the readers and quizzes are found on this moodle. The two sister moodles are:
1) Grammar and vocab exercises (mainly for Minna no Nihongo) which also works as revision for Kanji, thereby completing the learning cycles reinforcing each other for an optimum learning.
https://ble.soas.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=27190
2) Reading corner was conceived to help us create a student led Japanese language community. It contains some more reading exercises for you to try your Japanese.
https://ble.soas.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=35265