March, 2007 Issue（No4）
RIFA　Top Koryu　Top 　Japanese
　
　　 　　Lecture for Japanese instructors at Wing Plaza
Learning how to teach Japanese 　The participants listened to the lecture by Japanese instructor Mr. Toshiyuki Yoshioka on February 3, 17 and March 17 and learned how to teach Japanese with the textbook “Minna no nihonngo.” The lecturer offered the introductive part entitled the zero section and let the participants experience trial lessons for the beginners of both instructors and students. Conjugations of adjectives and verbs are difficult parts for instructors, too, but they learned in bothForeign residents who study Japanese in RIFA’s Japanese class. instructors’ and learners’ shoes.


　RIFA Japanese Class is held at Kakushu daintai-shitsu in Chuo kominkan from 10:30 to 12:00 on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays. As learners come irregularly and vary in their proficiency, they are taught on an individual basis. RIFA instructors are expected to work for them actively. Why don’t you drop in once in a while?
Renewal year for committees
　RIFA’s events are planned and operated by each committee. To enhance RIFA further more, everyone’s cooperation and participation in every RIFA’s event are expected. RIFA’s committees are to be renewed every two years. Fiscal 2007 is fallen on the renewal year. Please send back the post card that will be enclose in the invitation to the 2007 general meeting, circling the committee you’d like to belong to. Following is the activities of each committee.
General Affairs & Public
Relations Committee		 To expand membership
To publish RIFA’s newsletter
To advertise RIFA
To build and renew the website
Exchange Project Committee To expand membership
To plan and operate events related to the sister city
　 Birmingham, Michigan, U.S.A and the friendship city
　 Hengyang, Hunan, China.
To plan and operate RIFA’s members’ gathering
Cultural Project Committee To expand membership
To plan and operate cross-cultural events named “Ibunka
　 koryu　 Salon’ in which Japanese and foreign residents
　 exchange
To plan and operate RIFA’s members’ gathering
For inquiry, please call RIFA at 551-0293
　Editor’s Note
　I thought that it had been just a while ago when nearby first graders of elementary school had begun to go to school, but now their backpacks have become very natural. I am still working in the same place even after my retirement. Though the sections were changed, I keep working, thinking of myself as if I am like a fresh first grader. I’d like to continue to work from now on, too, like the fresh first graders, thanking that I still have a job and am in good shape. 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　(Y.T)
March, 2007 Issue（No4）

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