Great Idea!

Hi Diana,

I LOVE your idea of introducing Japanese culture along with the learning of Chinese. A lot of my students, all Hispanics, somehow are super interested in Japanese cartoon/manga. It'd be very fun to have students "guess" the meaning or authors of the poems from limited amount of classical Chinese characters in it. Actually I got a few students asked me about the meaning of the manga they read before. If I can integrate their interests into our classrom, I see that I'm guiding the students to find the connection between different languages and cultures. Thank you