Deanna Said:

What are the best online resources for students of Japanese?

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you can try www.livemocha.com it's a free site that helps you learn foreign languages, one of which is japanese. the courses themselves on the site may not be advanced enough for you depending on how much you know, but at the very least they can help you learn kanji and perfect your pronunciation. also, the site allows you to talk with native japanese speakers, which is very helpful. I've been learning Japanese as well and I taught myself the first-grade kanji with a workbook called "kanji power" that I got at barnes & noble. I also got a very helpful book called "A guide to remembering japanese characters" by kenneth g. henshall. It's very intimidating-looking, but it has nearly 2000 kanji in it and gives tricks and ideas to remember them. It's also good to have a japanese dictionary on hand, it will be your best friend :). Another suggestion is to watch anime in japanese with the english subtitles on. This has helped me a lot with sentence structure, vocab, and pronunciation. (Some excellent anime are bleach, ouran high school host club, the melancholy of haruhi suzumiya, and elfen lied. Only watch elfen lied if you can handle blood and nudity. . . the rest are pretty pg/pg13) You can download anime in japanese from www.onemanga.com. If none of these things work, you could get a Rosetta Stone program. They are very expensive (around $200 each) but I have heard very good things about them and they have several different levels of difficulty http://www.rosettastone.com/personal/lan…
Good luck!!! Learning Japanese is my dream as well, even though the IB course isn't offered at my school, which I'm very sad about :(.

Shannon Said:

Upholding Academic Honesty?

We Answered:

How can someone answer this for you when the topic is academic honesty./

Herbert Said:

How can I expand my reading performance?

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studies have shown that reading slowly does not help with your comprehention, but do not read too fast either. We all make the mistake of when reading we always read abit and then go back a line or few words and read it agin to make sense of it.

You should practice reading without looking back at any words and try using your finger to follow them. then test yourself with some questions about the extract you have read. if you keep practicing you will start to improve.

If you do not understand some of the words and keep going back to them to read them again what you should do is at the begining of the week pick 10 random words from the dictionary and learn them for the whole week.

Patricia Said:

I have a friend who is around the age of 17, and has had difficulty with reading. It coud be dyslexia? Help?

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If it is dyslexia, then he would be eligible for accommodations on the SAT, but it has to be a documented disability to get them.

I know it is hard for him, he probably has been made to feel stupid his entire educational career but you can try and explain it to him this way - being dyslexic and using accommodations provided on tests is no more than a person needing glasses to read an exam. Each person is unique, and he needs help of some sort to understand the questions, just as someone who needs glasses could not take a test without them.

A good place to start is at his school. He should talk to his guidance counselor about being tested. It is very expensive to test outside of school, so he should take advantage of this opportunity now - if he is in public school, it will cost him nothing.

Tell him my son is similar - he had a speech delay as a young child, has a learning disability, but with accommodations, he is in his second year of college and doing well!

Good luck, he is lucky to have a good friend like you!

Beth Said:

Is this okay so far?

We Answered:

Overall this is accurate. I think you are a bit limited in the focus of what a BSW can would do. It is actually even broader than what you indicate. Also important to note that the BSW is the entry level but that an MSW is highly desirable. Also though math and science are not the most important aspects of social work. Both do have a role in terms of understanding human behavior (the biology of it) and math in terms of budgets and data analysis). DA