Home Page of Victoria Muehleisen

Announcements and News

• My office hours for Spring 2009 semester will be:
  • Mondays, from 12:00 to 13:30.
  • Wednesdays, from 18:15 to 19:30
• IMPORTANT:
  • On Wednesdays, I have a 6th period class, so if I am late, please wait for me!
  • I may sometimes have to attend meetings or university events on Wednesday evenings. In that case, I will post a sign on the door.
  • If you want to meet me but are not available either of those times, please make an appointment for another time by e-mail.

• E-mail: vicky AT waseda DOT jp
• Snail mail: School of International Liberal Studies,Nishi-Waseda, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo JAPAN 169-0051
• Office phone: 03-5286-1378 (on-campus extension: 3682)
• Office location: Building 11, 14th floor, Room 1445

Links for Students and Teachers of English

• Resources for Writing and Doing Research On-Line
• Links to the WWW for students This is a list I've compiled for people who are studying English. It hasn't been updated in a long, long time, so many of the links may not work...
• Vicky's List of Common Problems in English Usage - This explains some mistakes Japanese people often make when writing in English. It is not yet finished, but I hope you can use what is there now.
• Advice on choosing a dictionary
• Advice on Increasing Your Vocabulary
• How to Study English
  • Advice from Successful Students (essay written by students from a 1997 class--they were all very good at English!)
  • Advice from Vicky
The Compleat Lexical Tutor: all sorts of useful tools for studying English or French, and for working with texts. Try the Vocabprofile--you can paste in or upload a text (one you have written, or one from somewhere else) and find out how many words are in the most frequent 1000 words of English, which percent are of Latinate origin, and much more.

With my husband, Masashi Yamamoto, in Saipan, December 2007.
You can see more photos of my travels and my family at my personal web page. And you can read my personal blog here.

Links to Waseda Information

• Waseda's Home Page in English
• Waseda's Central Library and on-line catalog (WINE)
• If you want to study at Waseda...
• If you want to teach at Waseda...
• If you want to contact a professor at Waseda...
• Campus Maps: English and Japanese

Links for Japanese Study

• Facebook has a great application called KanjiBox, which you can use to quiz yourself on kana, kanji, and vocabulary. Fun and useful!
• Charles Kelly's Online Japanese Language Study Materials. I especially like the quizzes on words from Japanese newspapers.
• Yomoyomo web site for help with reading. Link to a web page, or paste in text. It will tell you how to pronounce the kanji, and it links to a dictionary. BEWARE, though--sometimes it makes mistakes in the readings.
• Another similar reading aid for helping to read web pages is Rikaichan, a pop-up extension for Firefox.
• A Japanese-English dictionaries? On-line, I often use the ones at the Japanese Yahoo web site.
• For a dictionary you can download to your own computer, I recommend one of the ones that uses Jim Bream's E-dict files. (These are the same ones used by Rikaichan.) On my Mac, I use the JEdict software. Free to download, but if you pay and register,you get access to more dictionary files, including a proper names dictionary, a dictionary of legal terms, and a dictionary of linguistics terms. For Windows, a similar program is JQuick Trans.
• Want a quick summary of Japanese grammar? The Wikipedia entry for Japanese grammar is quite good.
• If you like using corpora for language study, try the Japanese corpus of the Leeds Internet Collection (free to use) or the Japanese corpus with Sketch Engine (free 30 day trial). You can use these to see how Japanese words are actually used.
• Finally, an on-line etymological dictionary of Japanese (in Japanese only). Interesting if you want to find out the history of some Japanese words.