Japanese Language Class

Japanese Language Class is a class held by BSSC Culture Division. This event was held to facilitate boarders that had interests in Japanese, including the customs, languages and cultures. The customs that piqued the most interest is their diligent nature, and there is more cultures and languages things that can be discovered. Manga and Anime are famous cultures from Japan and they seems to be quite popular in Indonesia especially among teenagers. Not only that, Japanese foods also has a good reputation in Indonesia, such as sushi, karaage, ramen, etc.This can be proved by seeing so many Japanese restaurant that were established in towns. 

Japanese Class was taught by a teacher named Kanau Ishii from Tsukuba, Japan. She enrolled in Tsukuba University and currently in an exchange student program with BINUS. Japanese class consists of 6 meetings and 1 out-class meeting. The meetings discussed about basic conversation in Japanese Language, which using Hiragana Letters and Katakana Letters, also general culture of Japan. In addition, the class also discussed about pronunciation and grammar in Japanese Language, and one of the food called Gyudon. Gyudon is a Japanese dish consisting of a bowl of rice topped with beef and onion simmered in a mildly sweet sauce flavored with dashi ( fish and konbu stock ), soy sauce and mirin. Every meeting, the teacher gave some traditional games that are famous and popular in Japan, such as Janken (rock-scissor-paper) and Hanafuda (card game which used speed and precision).This Japanese language class acquired good responds from participants and the teachers. It was proved by the survey that reached 90% satisfaction percentages. Some participants even admitted that they are interested to join the class in the next term again. The teacher was also happy because she got to learn new experiences and opportunity to teach in the Language Class, because it was her first time in teaching. After 7 meetings, the participants and staffs felt there were so many benefits from the class, starting from knowing Japanese basic language, traditional games, culture and a lot of great friends. We hope for the next language class in the following terms, we will have another unforgettable Japanese class again and higher enthusiasm from the participants.