Welcome to “No-Level Brick Foreign Language Education”.
Every person has the right and responsibility to talk no matter our language ‘level’.
Leaving to technology what it is able to carry off by itself, can give back to human beings the time to think, feel and create.

ー Mariotti 2021

E-Learning
ー BunpoHyDict
ー ITADICT
ー a4Edu
ー JaLea
ー JaLea Business
ー Bunparser
ー CAFOSCARI Jisho

Action Research
ー Action Research Zero – ARZ
ー Japan Foundation Virtual Business
ー Japan Foundation Collaborative Creativity
ー Japan Foundation Virtual Ryuugaku (VR1)
ー Japan Foundation Virtual Ryuugaku 2 (VR2)
ー NoLBrick-SPIN
ー PCTO Workshop Esperienziale
ー Creative Writing Workshop x NoLBrick
ー Business Experience Workshop 2 2024/25

E-Learning

BunpoHyDict
Founded in 2008, BunpoHyDict is the first experiment of an e-learning system of the Japanese language for Italian native speakers. It consists in a hypermedia dictionary of Japanese grammar, in which entries are arranged alphabetically…

ITADICT
ITADICT aimed to create a freely accessible Japanese-Italian database, openly inspired by Jim Breen’s JMdict/EDICT project (1991), where it draws its structure and main features.
ITADICT was developed thanks…

a4Edu
a4Edu consists in a Japanese-Italian digital dictionary based on the JMDict library of the EDRDG research group, and it has become the natural evolution of the first online dictionary ITADICT (Prof. Marcella Mariotti…

JaLea
JaLea’s story begins in 2008 when Prof. Marcella Mariotti began the creation of BunpoHyDict in Japan. Together with Dr. Alessandro Mantelli, in 2011 she initiated the ITADICT project, the first online Japanese-Italian dictionary…

JaLea Business
JaLea Business is an online platform funded by the Mitsubishi Corporation as a tool to foster the study and learning of Business Japanese.It consists of 6 sections (Relational language, Job-hunting…

Bunparser
Bunparser: System and method for joining morphemes into lexical units and related transcription into hiragana syllables and Latin characters of a Japanese text was devised and patented…

CAFOSCARI Jisho
CAFOSCARI Jisho is an Italian-Japanese digital dictionary created at the Department of Asian and Mediterranean African Studies (Ca’ Foscari University Venice, UCF).
It is based on the translation work of the JMDict library (EDRDG)…

Action Research

Action Research Zero – ARZ
Action Research Zero is the first attempt to apply Hosokawa Hideo’s “activity-based” class model (Hosokawa 2008) to zero beginners in Japanese language outside of Japan. In an “activity-based” class, learners set a theme of interest…

Japan Foundation Virtual Business
Virtual Business was born as a parallel project to the first edition of Virtual Ryuugaku and was then brought back with the second edition of the project. The main aim of Virtual Business…

Japan Foundation Collaborative Creativity
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, another general lockdown has been imposed on Italy this year and face-to-face teaching has been suspended nationwide, making it impossible for students of Japanese language enrolled…

Japan Foundation Virtual Ryuugaku (VR1)
Funded by the Japan Foundation, this project aimed at providing students of Japanese Language with a virtual study abroad program in order to promote and support the motivation and creativity of Japanese language…

Japan Foundation Virtual Ryuugaku 2 (VR2)
Given the success of its first edition, Virtual ryuugak 2 was created with the aim to continue providing students of Japanese language a virtual study abroad program without limiting participation by language…

NoLBrick-SPIN
“What are we teaching and learning foreign languages for?” is the focal problem all language teachers are called to think about. While foreign language and intercultural education are often addressed by the CEFR…

PCTO Workshop esperienziale: Giapponese senza freni!
PCTO is an acronym for “Percorsi per le Competenze Trasversali ed Orientamento”, literally translating to “transversal skills and orientation pathways”. In high schools in Italy, they…

Creative Writing Workshop x NoLBrick
The Creative Writing Workshop x NoLBrick is a joint project that was carried out for 5 weeks in the months of february and march 2023 at Ca’ Foscari University…

Business Experience Workshop 2 2024/2025
How and what can be done to make a company more sustainable? What is the 2030 Agenda? How is a start-up company born? How do we work in Japanese while collaborating with…