Japanese

This course is designed for students who have experience studying Japanese at the intermediate level. Aiming to facilitate a mastery of reading and writing skills, the course covers writing of intermediate kanji; reading sentences, and writing one's own compositions.

This course aims to help students learn spoken and written Japanese for academic purposes through a variety of social subjects or quasi-professional topics. The target level is CEFR B2.1. Prerequisite:“J5: Japanese” or equivalent. Ten class hours/week. 

By the end of the course, students will be able to:
understand the main ideas, express one’s ideas, or interact with others on a variety of social subjects or quasi-professional topics, if the argument is not delivered in a complex structure and the development of the argument is clear, and speak and write appropriately according to the situation.

This course improves lower advanced level listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. It introduces the 50 most important sentence patterns for advanced level students and reviews the important sentence patterns from the intermediate level. Students acquire a command of practical Japanese necessary for daily communication and for study and research in a Japanese university. They master 8000 basic words and 1500 basic kanji. 

This course reviews and masters elementary Japanese grammar and sentence patterns and develops a well-balanced lower intermediate level proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Students learn the 50 most important sentence patterns of the intermediate level, master 3000 basic words and 600 to 750 kanji. They read short written passages on various topics that consist of sentence patterns, grammar and new vocabulary, make speeches on topics familiar to them, and write well-organized passages.

This is an intensive course that develops students' basic skills in conversation, reading, and writing necessary for daily student life in Japan. Upon completing this course, students are expected to have acquired the second half of basic grammar and vocabulary; be able to read simple texts in Japanese, which include the second half of basic grammar, vocabulary, and 172 kanji (in addition to 145 kanji at the level of the first half of basic Japanese), as well as to read and write about 170 kanji.