JAPN 101: The goal of this course is for the student to gain oral fluency in basic Japanese. In every class session, the student will engage in constant oral drills, under the supervision of her/his tutor. The sentence/word repetition drill, word substitution drill, and structure expansion drill are used to achieve fluency. The basic grammar and vocabulary are interwoven into patterned dialogs. By doing these drills, the student will be making active use of vocabulary words without translating. At the same time, the student will internalize the grammar of basic sentence structure. Occasionally, social-cultural-linguistic background will be given to the student by reading “NIHONGO NOTES”.
JAPN 203:
Student start to learn KANJI, Chinese characters, as well as new sentence structure and vocabulary. Throughout the semester students are required to submit writing assignments using HIRAGANA, KATAKANA, and KANJI.
JAPN 204:
The student learns new KANJI and RADICALS on Mondays. On Wednesdays they learn new sentence structure and vocabulary. On Fridays the student practices reading and sentence structures. In addition, they learn how to use Nelson’s Character Dictionary for future study for Japanese.