Japanese

This course is designed for students who have some experience learning Japanese, aiming to enhance one's reading and writing skills as well as to acquire the skills to use elementary-level vocabulary and grammar. The course design is based on sentence structures and grammatical
patterns learned in the textbook, "Elementary Japanese for Academic Purposes Vol. 1". 

Textbook: Elementary Japanese for Academic Purposes Vol. 1 (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Press).

This is a class for advanced Japanese language learners to freely express their own subjective thoughts through writing. It provides training to write appropriate sentences according to the purpose of the text (content, reader, etc.). The class provides opportunities for students to express their own thoughts and ideas about the given assignments in writing. 

This course is aimed at students who have experience studying at the intermediate level. It provides a comprehensive study of upper-intermediate Japanese language, preparing students to move on to the advanced level. Through close reading of textbooks, the course increases one's knowledge of grammar, vocabulary, and kanji, and improves one's reading comprehension and written expression skills. Similarly, the course improves one's oral expression skills to explain and discuss what they have understood.

Textbook: "Let's Learn Intermediate Levels: Intermediate Levels" by Etsuko Hirai and Sachiko Miwa (2009), Three A Network.

This course is designed for students learning Japanese for the first time. The course aims to familiarize students with Japanese characters and acquire basic reading and writing skills. The course design is based on sentence structures and grammatical patterns learned in Elementary Japanese for Academic Purposes Vol. 1 (Lesson 1 to 6). It is recommended to take “Essential Japanese 1M-1 & 1M-2” together with this course.