Prerequisite for entry
For complete beginners.
Term duration
10 x 2-hour classes.
Aims and objectives
The aim of the course is to enable students to function at a basic everyday survival level (basic vocabulary, grammar and phonetics). Students should be able to communicate in and understand Japanese on a number of practical everyday matters.听 Language learning skills, including autonomous learning and how to approach some authentic material will be enhanced.听 Also, students should develop their ability of reading and writing Hiragana. Cultural awareness will be developed.
Functions
- Greetings and introductions
- Asking about a location of a thing
- Asking for prices
- Asking for or giving a telephone number
- Expressing time
- Asking someone to do something together
- Talking about daily routines
- Reading and writing a memo
Course content
Main topics/themes to be covered:
- Countries, nationalities and languages
- Occupation
- Numbers
- Days of a week and time
- Shopping
- Travel and transport
Linguistic structures/ Phonetics
Basic rules of the pronunciation of Spoken Japanese.
Grammar
- Noun sentences
- ko/so/a/do words (demonstrative words)
- Words to make a question
- Negative form of desu 锛堛仹銇欙級
- Questions with interrogatives
- Particles (mo, ne, no, yo, ni.. etc)
- The masu form of verbs
- Past tense of the masu form
- Negative form of the masu form
- masho / masenka 听
Learning resources
Books
- Course book: Minna no Nihongo (shokyu 1) (Lesson 1 鈥 Lesson 6)听 published by 3A Corporation
- Other material: Minna no Nihongo 1 Translation & Grammatical Notes (Lesson 1 鈥 Lesson 6)听 published by 3A Corporation
Bilingual Dictionaries
Oxford Beginner鈥檚 Japanese dictionary (Oxford University Press) 听
Useful websites
In addition there is a wide range of language learning materials for self-study in the .
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