At the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Communicate in Japanese in a culturally appropriate manner with an intermediate level of accuracy and fluency.
• Interact in Japanese mainly in the four topics of health, travel plans, future plan, and asking for favors and offering help.
• Handle complicated tasks such as expressing physical conditions appropriately according to the situation, asking for help, making polite requests, and giving suggestions, making and describing travel plans and work plans, expressing future plans and current states; expressing what to do to achieve future objectives, asking for favors and offering help.
• Be understood without difficulty by a native Japanese who are familiar with Japanese of non-native Japanese speaker.
• Understand short dialogues related to simple topics/practices relevant to health, travel plans, future plans, asking for favors and offering help.
• Understand the main facts and some supporting details in written passages.
• Select appropriate resources to interact and discuss some of the different practices, beliefs and attitudes that characterize Japanese-speaking cultures and contrast them with non-Japanese-speaking cultures.
• Recognize the role of cultural knowledge in understanding written texts.
• State opinions and provide some support for their ideas.
• Demonstrate ability to do basic analysis and research on a cultural topic and present their findings.
• Compare and contrast cultural practices and generalize about the importance of understanding cultural differences.
• Demonstrate critical thinking and collaborate problem-solving through discussions.
• Recognize and write newly introduced Japanese characters in context.