--- Forwarded Message from Richard House <[log in to unmask]> ---

>To: [log in to unmask]
>From: Richard House <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Hiragana/Katakana Games to learn spelling
>Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 09:33:45 -0400

Hello All - At the request of Pam Ikegami of the Japanese Program here 
at UNH, I'm forwarding this rather interesting tidbit.

- Dick House

>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>  From: Tim Haines <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Mon, May 12, 2008 at 4:20 AM
> Subject: Re: Improve your Katakana
> To: pamela I <[log in to unmask]>
>
>
> Hi Pam,
>
> Good news.  I managed to get the hiragana game online over the 
> weekend.  It can be played by chatting with [log in to unmask]  
> The katakana game can now be played by chatting with 
> [log in to unmask]  This will work in google talk, the chat tool 
> inside gmail, or any jabber client.  If your director is happy to 
> email the list about the games, I'll do all I can to support and 
> answer any queries that people have. 
>
> My Japanese wife told me today that I should think about adding other 
> romanization systems to the more advanced questions, so I will likely 
> be adding those soon.  I will also be adding words and Kanji when time 
> allows.
>
> Pam, I was wondering if there's anything I can do to make the games 
> more useful to Japanese teachers.  Perhaps I can set things up so you 
> can get reports of how your students progress.  Or I could set it up 
> so you can easily set students homework or something?  Would anything 
> like that be useful?

> Cheers,
>
> Tim.
>
>
Richard C House, Director
Language Resource Center
University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH   03824
603.862.3556



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