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Motivation to Study Japanese The reason why Nisei children who were born in the U.S. go to Japanese-language schools or hoshūkō is that their parents …
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In mid-May, I reconnected with Elaine Kitamura and her younger brother, Darrell Kitamura, through a friend of a friend. The Kitamuras are the siblings that …
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When Tokyo native Nao Magami was a student at California State University in the 1970s, he wondered why his Japanese American friends only spoke English, …
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I thought it was very unfair of my parents to make me go to Saturday School to learn Japanese. All the other kids I knew …
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As the granddaughter of prominent Japanese American painter Hisako Hibi, Amy Lee-Tai was exposed to art at an early age—and it was through her grandmother’s …
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日系人を日本に連れて行くツアーガイドに 親が日本生まれの新一世は別として、日本語が堪能な三世以降の日系アメリカ人に出会ったことがほとんどない。子ど…
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英語と日本語の両輪 1903年に創刊された『羅府新報』は今も週に4日、有料紙として発行されている(パンデミック中は週に3日発行)。…
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「日本語教育は幼稚園に投資すると効果が高い」――現在、当地で「南米日系社会における複言語話者の日本語使用特性の研究」を調査する金沢大学の松田真希…
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日米を往復した子供時代 「自分自身を日系アメリカ人だと思ったことはありません。日本人であり、同時にアメリカ人だととらえています」と語るのは、現…
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その1>>多言語環境で育つ子ども達が一世と違うところは、個人の中で複数の言語と文化が融合した独自の存在だという点です。 日本語、スペイン語、どちらの…
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