Japanese language learning supported by computational tools: State of the art and challenges for the Latin America community

In Latin America live a lot of foreigners from all parts of the world and many of them form communities. It is increasingly frequent that their descendents search for new opportunities in the countries from where they descend, even though they have grown up at the Latin American culture. This paper deals with the theme of ways of computational support for Japanese language learning to the Latin America dwellers that go to Japan. As results of this work, we highlight the state of the art of computational tools developed to support the Japanese language learning and, additionally, we present challenges of future computational development to the Latin America computing community related to the subject-matter.