Second Level Modern Japanese II

5 units

This is the second semester of an academic-year course in intermediate Japanese. The course emphasizes the acquisition of all four language skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) through meaningful communicative practices. It introduces more vocabulary, expressions, grammatical structures and conjugation patterns such as passive, causative, causative-passive and honorifics. Cultural aspects of the language are consistently incorporated in classroom practice to enforce students' cultural awareness and communication success in the global era. After completing this course, students are able to understand and participate in conversation in complex Japanese, and to be able to express opinions/thoughts and present information using appropriate vocabulary, expressions and basic grammar in context. They can communicate appropriately using a variety of speech styles. They are able to read and write more complex texts with a solid understanding of main ideas and supporting details on familiar topics from a variety of texts. Students are required to take the placement exam unless they are advancing from the previous level.