Japanese-learner Increasing

Japan Foundation announced there are Japanese learners in 133 countries, 2980,000 Japanese learners in the world. 26% increased since 3 years ago. They sent survey slip to 29,000 bodies and 77% of them answered. The figure doesn't contain self-taught students. Korean and Australian seems to majorities of the learners. Popularity of Anime and Manga pushes the trend.



Hmm. I wonder if Anime and Manga can be good texts. Some would be good texts. If they want to watch Anime and read Manga for study, I recommend decent ones. Once an American teenager student said "Matana" to me. I'm sure he will be laid off from his boss in the future. I coached him not to use rude expressions to elder people for himself. Then he said "Arigatoyo". I coached it for him again. Then he said "On ni kiruze". Hahaha, he can took mistake because he is a student. However, he learned rude expressions too much. (He adjusted his expression soon.) Some words used in Anime and Manga are strange and impractical as common Japanese.



(Of course, in the case of that one elder person is their close friend. they may be able to use casual talk. But basically they should not use it.)



I thought which Japanese movies are good for Japanese learners. I like this movie very much. http://www.hakase-movie.com/ I found its DVD contains English caption too. They don't use un-proper Japanese. The director, Mr.Koizumi, made Ameagaru. This original novel is written by Ogawa Yoko. Miss/Mrs Ogawa interviewed Fujiwara Masahiko, a mathematician and the author of Dignity of the Nation, and wrote the novel.



Also I recommend http://www.amidado.com/. This is also a works by Mr. Koizumi. They don't use un-proper Japanese. (I guess some of them speak some dialect.)



I think I can say Mr. Koizumi's style to depict is the mainstream of Japanese movie. Japanese learners would feel Japanese emotion.



It is a photo of Shuri-castle in Okinawa.