Teaching Japanese through music
Teach Japanese using songs, music, lyrics and music videos.
Game
Music game
http://learningplace.eq.edu.au/cx/resources/items/7f13ec88-f31f-e5aa-7a8c-237cd3c66ce7/1/ViewIMS.jsp?backto=close
Listen to Tomoko describe the instrument and match the picture and verb to her description.
Restricted to The Learning Place members only.
Access information here.
Videos
Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend (In Japanese)
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=_OECaEub2f8&feature=related
NOTE: CONTAINS SWEARING!
Avril Lavigne - Hot (In Japanese)
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=ASEpWR2THGY&feature=related
Celine Dion and Ito Yuna (Anata ga iru kagiri)
Counting things
Dates
Greetings song
Hiragana song
Jero (African American singing Enka)
My favourite things in Japanese
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ_IHLNVP1U
Japanese national anthem
Silent night in Japanese
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=wLqlonAZ1Hs
Useful websites for teaching Japanese SONGS
Children songs
http://www.mamalisa.com/world/japan.html
List of traditional folk songs including koinobori, hinamatsuri, cherry blossum, sakura etc. Includes MP3, lyrics and sheet music.
HMV Music Store Japan
http://www.hmv.co.jp/?lang=ja
What are the Top 10 J-pop songs? Check out HMV in Japan.
Language songs
http://www.genkienglish.net/genkijapan/learnjapanesenumbers.htm
You-Tube songs on numbers, when/where/who/what song, days of the week, months, hiragana and katakana songs, adjectives, weather, mary had a little lamb
New song each month
http://www.nhk.or.jp/kids/okaa/
New song each month includes lyrics and singing. Children games too.
Nursery rhyme lyrics
http://www.mahoroba.ne.jp/~gonbe007/hog/shouka/00_songs.html
List of 100s of famous Japanese nursery rhyme lyrics (without MP3).
Songs by grammar
http://www3.u-toyama.ac.jp/niho/song/song_jplevel_e.html
Lenghty list of songs listed by grammar point including lyrics, MP3 with singing or no singing.
Tower Records Japan
http://www.towerrecords.co.jp/sitemap/CSfHome.jsp
Latest music, videos, DVDS in Japan