At the end of this course, students will be able to:
- understand content referring to basic personal background and needs, social conventions and somewhat more complex situations, such as lodging, transportation, shopping, personal interests and activities, and a greater diversity of instructions and directions.
- understand short routine telephone conversations and simple announcements and reports over the media.
- talk simply about self and family members, ask and answer questions, participate in simple conversations on topics beyond immediate needs, such as personal history, leisure time activities, given a basic communicative context.
- read minimal suppositions in areas of personal interest and/or knowledge.
- read straightforward descriptions of persons, places, and things written for a wide audience.
- writes about personal preferences, daily routine, everyday events, and other topics grounded in personal experience.
- express present time and at least one other time frame or aspect consistently.
- demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the practices and perspectives of the culture studied
- demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the products and perspectives of the culture studied
- acquire information and recognize the distinctive viewpoints that are only available through the foreign language and its cultures
- demonstrate understanding of the concept of culture through comparisons of the cultures studied and their own
- use the language both within and beyond the school setting
- read, discuss and write about topics concerning the Japanese culture featured in textbooks and in target language media at the intermediate level