{"id":876,"date":"2026-05-14T11:12:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T16:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/language-resource-center\/?page_id=876"},"modified":"2026-05-14T11:12:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T16:12:23","slug":"japanese","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/language-resource-center\/resources\/japanese\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"uwm-l-row\">\n<div class=\"uwm-l-col\">\n<p>The Language Resource Center has collaborated closely with the Japanese Program in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beginning in fall of 2015, supported by the Title VI National Resource Center grant from the U.S. Department of Education, graduate, undergraduate, and volunteer students worked tirelessly in creating various instructional materials for different courses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We would like to sincerely thank Sam Bowden, Peter John Grzywacz, Dana Johnson, Timothy MacKenzie, Kenny Ottow-Lauterbach, Kayla Perry, Sarah Shelnutt, Gabrielle Sweeney, Kazuhide Takeuchi and Alexander Paul Thompson for their efforts in providing resources for students of all levels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"uwm-l-row\">\n<div class=\"uwm-l-col\">\n<figure class=\"uwm-c-img--caption-gray\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"549\" height=\"366\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/language-resource-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/802\/2026\/04\/lrc-graduate-students.jpg\" alt=\"Six students stand together for a photo in front of a green screen.\" class=\"wp-image-924\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/language-resource-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/802\/2026\/04\/lrc-graduate-students.jpg 549w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/language-resource-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/802\/2026\/04\/lrc-graduate-students-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 549px) 100vw, 549px\" \/><figcaption>Bryan Rogers (Portuguese), Sarah Shelnutt (Japanese), Brandon Berthiaume (Portuguese), Corey Schaeffer (Korean), Dana Johnson (Japanese), and Kristen Lango (Polish) (from left to right)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"uwm-l-col\">\n<figure class=\"uwm-c-img--caption-gray\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2208\" height=\"1242\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/language-resource-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/802\/2026\/04\/lrc-japanese-students-26-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"three students and a professor sit at a table in the Language Oasis wearing podcast equipment and smile for a photo\" class=\"wp-image-926\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/language-resource-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/802\/2026\/04\/lrc-japanese-students-26-rotated.jpg 2208w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/language-resource-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/802\/2026\/04\/lrc-japanese-students-26-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/language-resource-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/802\/2026\/04\/lrc-japanese-students-26-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/language-resource-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/802\/2026\/04\/lrc-japanese-students-26-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/language-resource-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/802\/2026\/04\/lrc-japanese-students-26-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/language-resource-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/802\/2026\/04\/lrc-japanese-students-26-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2208px) 100vw, 2208px\" \/><figcaption>Kayla Perry, Gabrielle Sweeney, Dr. Aragorn Quinn, Kenny Ottow-Lauterbach (from left to right)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"uwm-l-col uwm-l-col--4 uwm-l-offset--1\"><div class=\"content_block\" id=\"custom_post_widget-1129\"><nav aria-label=\"Sidebar\" class=\"uwm-p-navigation-list uwm-p-navigation-list--gold-border \"><div class=\"uwm-p-navigation-list--title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/language-resource-center\/resources\/japanese\/\">Japanese<\/a><\/div><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/language-resource-center\/resources\/japanese\/japanese-101\/\">Japanese 101<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/language-resource-center\/resources\/japanese\/japanese-102\/\">Japanese 102<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":19040,"featured_media":0,"parent":87,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[40069,39471]},"class_list":["post-876","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.5 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - 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