High school students in New Zealand will soon be using a
multimedia CD-ROM produced at the University of New South Wales to learn
Japanese. The NZ Ministry of Education has purchased 500 copies of the CD-ROM,
Japan Album, for distribution to schools. The CD-ROM was developed by the
university鈥檚 Unisearch Multimedia in conjunction with the Department of School
Education in NSW and the Japan Foundation. The Japan Album, with a vocabulary of
1200 words, runs on multimedia PCs and Macintosh computers. More information is
available from the Unisearch Website http://www.unisearchmm.com
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