About “ひきだすにほんご Activate Your Japanese!”
ひきだすにほんご Activate Your Japanese! introduces Japanese culture and language mainly to foreign citizens seeking to live and work in Japan and Japanese-language learners who wish to learn about life in Japan.
The Japan Foundation has collaborated with NHK Educational Corporation to produce this program. From 2022 onward, it will be broadcast on television channels and video sites in various countries and made available to classrooms in and out of Japan. Broadcast and availability of this program as on-demand video on NHK WORLD-JAPAN also began on February 28, 2022.
Context of this Production
Recently, cross-border travel and communication has flourished, and there are more and more foreign nationals working in Japan in a multitude of fields. People of various nationalities and cultural backgrounds, including those in the Specified Skilled Worker system, will have more opportunities to live in the same communities and work at the same workplaces.
The goal of this program is to encourage those who have learned basic Japanese (JF Standard for Japanese-Language Education* A2) to engage in more independent communication in Japanese (JF Standard for Japanese-Language Education B1).
The main segment of the program presents communication strategies** for making the fullest use of one’s Japanese skill to achieve communication goals, in conjunction with a drama that portrays the growth of Xuan, a Vietnamese protagonist who begins her life in Japan to work in a hotel. The program will also assist multi-faceted learning with other segments, including a mini segment that introduces the huge variety of onomatopoeia in Japanese, and a documentary segment focusing on international residents living in Japan and the highlights of the areas they live in.
Another aim of this program is to enable institutions and local residents in Japan to refer to the specific communication methods and levels of Japanese-language ability required for non-native speakers to live and work in Japan.
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The JF Standard for Japanese-Language Education (External link) is a framework for learning, teaching, and evaluation methods for the Japanese language that was developed by the Japan Foundation based on the ideas behind the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). Levels of Japanese proficiency are described in six stages from A1 to C2.
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For example, behaviors like asking for clarification when one hears an unfamiliar word or smoothly taking turns when participating in a conversation. This program takes a new approach that seeks to improve communication skills in Japanese by focusing on communication strategies.
About ひきだすにほんご Activate Your Japanese! Content-Library
On this website, you can view the videos of “ひきだすにほんご Activate Your Japanese!” by the segments, as well as webisodes of “ONOMATOPOEIA” and “Welcome to My Japan!” that are not included in the broadcast version. The website is also full of functions that are useful for use in classrooms, including subtitles in multiple languages, vocabulary database and scripts – please see the "About this Website "page for further information.
