Development of the multimedia database for Teaching & Learning Japanese

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Our project had developed the multimedia database for teaching and learning Japanese for three years.The following the database of teaching and learning materials developed.(1) Dictionary database of Kanji (about 6,000 letters)(2) Hitsujun database of Kanji (about 4,000 letters)(3) Basic word database (about 3,000 words from Basic Japanese Dictionary)(4) Usage database (about 7,000 usages)(5) Academic term database (about 100,000 words from technical and academic terms)(6) Japanese-English dictionary (about 7,000 words from the Kodansha PAX dictionary)(7) Text database for readings (about 90 textbooks, novels, articles, books and movie script)Several members of this project had visited the countries to investigate their needs for Japanese education and abilities to use this database system.Manuals to use these features were also written down for users. Feasibility and evaluation studies of the prototype system were conducted in following countries : USA,Canada, Italy, Australia and Japan.In addition to above developments, as an last year's activity of the project, the public presentation was conducted to report the outcomes of the project and to demonstrate the database and its utility softwares.According to the reaction from users of foreign countries and the results of feasibility and evaluation studies, this database shown itself as possible outstanding systems to support the Japanese learners from beginning level to advanced level.