Japanese Course Level & Description
Be introduced to the Japanese writing system: hiragana, katakana, and kanji. Learners will practice how to use computer to write Japanese. Starting from the middle of the course, learners will begin practicing kanji.
GENERAL COMMUNICATION
GENERAL COMMUNICATION
- Greetings
- Introducing self and others
- Describing people
- Talking about numbers and time
- Shopping and prices
- Ordering food
- Describing daily activities
- Inviting someone out
- Understanding street directions & locations of objects
- Making suggestions
- Talking about likes & dislikes
- Construction of affirmative sentences
- Question sentences
- Negative form
- Possessive form
- Particles
- Demonstratives
- Tags
- Verb conjugation
- Present tense and past tense
- Frequency adverbs
- na and i adjectives
- Locational words
- Chapters 1 - 4 of Genki (2nd)
- 8 hours online lessons
- Additional lesson may be purchased if required
New kanji characters will be introduced in each lesson and learners will focus on mastering a set of kanji characters in each lesson.
In addition to speaking and listening practices, learners will start developing their reading and writing skills. Learners will learn to read and write short letters and have their writing personally reviewed by the instructor.
GENERAL COMMUNICATION
GENERAL COMMUNICATION
- Making a request
- Asking for permission
- Stating a prohibition
- Making comments
- Providing an explanation
- Talking about one’s family
- Offering assistance
- Giving compliments
- Expressing gratitude
- Receiving hospitality
- Conjugational verbs
- Continuous tense
- Stating purpose using ni
- The short form of verbs
- Quoting someone
- Nominalising verb
- Qualifying nouns
- Present perfect tense
- Chapters 5 - 8 of Genki (2nd)
- 8 hours online lessons
- Additional lesson may be purchased if required
Speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills will be developed further. Your instructor will be able to provide you with dialogues that match your interests to develop your conversational skills. Learners will practice making a questionnaire, writing a report based on a survey, writing a journal, and writing a thank-you letter. Learners will also read longer passages, learn a lot more new vocabularies, and continue to build their reading comprehension skills. The instructor will provide additional resources to enrich the course.
GENERAL COMMUNICATION
GENERAL COMMUNICATION
- Making a reservation
- Talking about holidays
- Talking about one’s health
- Getting a part-time job
- Expressing intentions
- Giving advice
- Describing aspirations
- Comparatives
- Superlatives
- Form to indicate a change
- How to connect sentences
- The mode of explaining things
- Sentence-final expressions to make a statement, give advice, or make a guess
- Double negatives
- Potential verbs
- Describing impression
- Conjunction
- Private predicates
- The verbs of giving & receiving
- Chapters 9 - 12 of Genki (2nd)
- 8 hours online lessons
- Additional lesson may be purchased if required
Learners will start reading actual texts from the media and watch short video clips to hone their reading and listening skills. Learners will start practicing dialogues with their instructor and be able to converse on various topics. The instructor will provide additional resources to enrich the course.
GENERAL COMMUNICATION
GENERAL COMMUNICATION
- Discussing holiday plans
- Expressing hopes
- How to apologise
- Expressing regrets
- Conducting a small talk
- Volitional forms
- Qualifier sentences
- Describing the giving & receiving of services
- Different forms to make a request
- Sentence final expressions
- Informal quote
- Conditional form
- Stating a completed action
- Connecting two verbs
- Honorific verbs
- Suppositions
- Chapters 13 - 16 of Genki (2nd)
- 8 hours online lessons
- Additional lesson may be purchased if required
Learners’ literacy skills, as well speaking and listening skills will be developed further. Practice writing greeting cards, produce a short speech for different occasions, watch short video clips, read short newspaper articles on various topics and critically evaluate the articles, and discuss the topics with the instructor.
GENERAL COMMUNICATION
GENERAL COMMUNICATION
- Making a request in different ways
- Wishing someone good luck
- Talking about one’s employment conditions
- Expressing gratitudes & regrets
- Giving respectful advice
- Visiting a Japanese home
- Extra-modest expressions
- Humble expressions
- Passive sentences
- Causative form
- Command
- Causative-passive sentences
- Chapters 17 - 20 of Genki (2nd)
- 8 hours online lessons
- Additional lesson may be purchased if required
This continuing advanced course focuses on further improving learners’ proficiency in reading, writing, listening and speaking at an advanced level.
Learners will read writings on various topics (national policies, economy, culture, technology), study the structure of the writings, and write a report on a research topic.
Learners will practice listening to interviews, public speeches, and news broadcast and comprehend the presented materials spoken at a natural speed, summarise in their own words, and be able to discuss orally with their instructor.
TEXTBOOK
TEXTBOOK
- Chapters 21 - 23 of Genki (2nd)
- 8 hours online lessons
- Additional lesson may be purchased if required