Fundamental Japanese II

(4 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This comprehensive Japanese language communication course for near beginners is designed for students who have mastered about 60 kanji and have had around 50-100 hours of instruction in Japanese language at the college level. Although students will practice all four skills, more focus is placed on speaking and interaction. Students will learn important basic Japanese grammar such as expressions of aspects/comparisons, short forms of verbs and adjectives, and various noun modification patterns. About 90 new kanji and important vocabulary for everyday usage are also introduced. Students are required to participate actively in class in order to fully develop their language proficiency. Each Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday mornings are one 100-minute class. TJ - Tokyo, Japan: This course is designed for students who have some knowledge of basic grammar and have already been familiar with hiragana, katakana and some kanji. It aims to develop language proficiency in Japanese, integrating four skills: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. The emphasis is put on thorough mastery of basic functional grammar of Japanese through oral practice. Communicative activities that use real life situations are frequently conducted through pair/group work. We will cover Lesson 9 to 20 of Situational Functional Japanese (SFJ).