Concentration - 神経衰弱
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007Hi everyone!
Previously I introduced a game called “Fukuwarai” in my last blog. Has anyone tried it?
Today, I want to introduce another useful game that you can play with your friend.
I am sure that many of you have played this game with cards. It is a language version of “Concentration” (Shinkei suijaku). This is also known as memory, in which all of the cards are laid face down on a surface and two cards are flipped face up over each turn. The object of the game is to turn over pairs of matching cards.
If you have the chance to play this game with your classmates, make your own cards and try with Japanese. To remember Katakana and Hiragana, for example, you can make cards with Hiragana and Katakana which can be matched together. You can also play this game to memorize vocabulary – you can write matched words in English and Japanese.
This game is actually quite fun and can help you remember character/words in a fun and easy way!
Another good thing is that you can start with small number of cards, and then you can add more and more cards later on. So why not make your own cards and play with your friends!
See you next week!
Posted by Miho Okano in Teaching Japanese |
August 1st, 2007 at 10:45 am
Nice one! どちら方ですか。
I play this game often with my students. One thing that you must always always do is to SAY whatever card you reveal though. Our brains are very good at remembering locations, so if you play this without SAYING each card you reveal you don’t end up remembering the vocab.
The other method I use is to play this game, but have only 1 person (the controller), who doesn’t actually participate in the game, ever touch the cards. Each row and column has a hiragana (or katakana, or whatever) assigned to it. To flip over the cards, you must tell the controller the row and column you want him/her to flip over. Maybe a pic would make it easier:
か き く け こ
さ x x x x x
し x x x x x
す x x x x x
せ x x x x x
そ x x x x x
All the ‘x’ = playing cards.
To flip over the top left card, you would have to tell the controller ‘さか’. Next along would be ‘さき’
This variation helps you if you find you are good at remembering locations of cards but not the symbols under them. This variation FORCES you to read them out.
August 1st, 2007 at 10:46 am
Sorry, when I pressed ’submit comment’ the little graphic I made got messed up!
August 7th, 2007 at 5:23 pm
Hi Max-san!
That’s seems to be interesting.
I will try next time
Thank you!
Cheers,
Miho