Paper short abstract:

The present paper consists of a short presentation of the Japanese grammar and vocabulary teaching materials developed in Romania. Developing materials is strongly related to the process of learning and teaching, forming a system, in which every one plays an important role.

Paper long abstract:

The present paper consists of a short presentation of the Japanese grammar and the Japanese vocabulary teaching materials developed in Romania. All of these materials are the products of the Japanese language teaching and learning processes. Until now, there have been used Japanese language materials made in Japan, which were not so familiar to the learners. This is the reason why the authors have decided to develop materials taking into consideration the cultural and linguistic difference between Japanese and Romanian. There are also briefly introduced some of the major difficulties in writing down the Japanese grammar and vocabulary teaching materials in the Romanian language. Despite the fact that their content as well as their level of difficulty differ, if we regard them conceptually some common points can be observed. The paper refers to various issues, such as the topics related to the difficulties which occur in Romanian as far as terminology is concerned, the way they influence the presentation of the classification of the Japanese sentence patterns, the number and the content of the examples, as well as the expressions with a similar meaning. Besides that, as far as the Japanese vocabulary is concerned, our research focuses upon the classification by situation, the selection of the minimum number of words, as well as their translation into Romanian. The Japanese language learners can discover different aspects of Japanese as well as Romanian historical and cultural background through examples. Writing down Japanese language teaching materials is strongly related to the process of learning and teaching, and it is a system through which both processes can be improved as every one of them plays an important role, by being an essential gear in this kind of machinery.