Junk mail...yes more food!

from the Northern Territory

A Japanese version of pizza

A not so cute menu unless you like fast food!

A cute menu

Looking for Vocab Lists?

http://www.languageguide.org/

This site by languages has categories of words with links to pictures, sound and kanji, kana, and romaji versions of the words. The best thing is NO ENGLISH so you can send your students in to play. The site is run by volunteers and has the following languages on it:

English (English)
Russian (Русский)
Japanese (日本語Nihongo)
Spanish (Español)
Arabic (عربي)
French (Français)
Hebrew (עברית)
German (Deutsch)
Mandarin Chinese (普通话)

Heard of "Podcasts"?

I hadn't either but if Japanese teachers check out this site: http://www.manythings.org/japanese/links/, you will find a little comment and some links to a few examples. Basically Podcasts are files of people talking as well as writing on their Blog. Pretty interesting and useful for teachers since they can download the soundfiles which are usually mp3 format. Also http://tokyocalling.org/.

French teachers can go to this site which is terrrific: http://www.podcast.net/show/520

Indonesian: http://www.podcast.net/tag/indonesia

[Just type INDONESIAN PODCAST (or the language you want) in Google or another search engine]

A great site and place to download Jap sheets etc

All sorts of sheets for various skill levels from the Meguro Language Centre in Japan. Romaji and kana versons are available. Takes AGES to download them all (the Acrobat PDF files anyway) and the page is not particularly well laid out but since it's free I won't complain!

Check it out here:

http://www.mlcjapanese.co.jp/Download.htm

Not sure what this orange flower is but I like the colour. Can you see the ant? Click on it to see the bigger version if you can't!

A fuzzy red flower from Cairns. Like a round bottlebrush!

Just got back from Brisbane and Cairns...

where the weather was wonderful and there have been showers all day here in soggy Perth. Took loads of photos with my new digital camera so I'm going to endevour ro post some here.

Fingers crossed!