Course Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion of the course, you should be able to:

• Understand short, learned utterances, and occasionally sentence-length utterances where context is clear. Comprehension is limited to vocabulary and some simple questions/statements related to everyday events, such as homes, leisure time, favorite things and activities, and shopping. 

• Make short statements and ask simple questions, primarily by relying on memorized utterances and set phrases. Occasionally, expand to sentence-level production to accomplish tasks in contexts similar to those stated above. Ask for meanings of unknown words in Japanese and expand their vocabulary.

• Understand written materials in hiragana, katakana and kanji. Comprehension is limited to vocabulary and some simple questions/statements related to contexts similar to the above mentioned contexts. Occasionally comprehend some unfamiliar materials in which the context is clear.

• Write short phrases and sentences in hiragana, katakana and kanji with accuracy. Write simple description of houses, leisure time, favorite things and activities and compose simple memos.

• Understand some aspect of Japanese culture such as Japanese house, Japanese Colleges and College life, popular leisure activities and consumer goods in Japan, and shopping in Japan.