Course Description
Welcome to JPN 2023, a course in intermediate-level Japanese. This course builds on your reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills, providing you an opportunity to master more complex grammatical structures through practical application in both written and spoken contexts. Communicative activities, done in pairs or small groups, help you gain confidence in speaking Japanese, and also prepare you for everyday interactions in Japan. Additionally, aspects of Japanese culture are introduced, as culture is such an integral part of the language.
Upon successful completion of this course, you should be able to:
1. Communicate in Japanese to function in basic everyday situations, employing such conversational strategies as speech fillers andあいづち.
2. Discuss past experiences
3. Express desires using both the first person and third person forms
4. Make suggestions and statements of probability
5. Know the concept of giving and receiving
6. Give advice or recommendation
7. Hypothesize using the conditional form
8. Make a hearsay report
9. Effectively use new counters and particles
10. Use basic honorific forms
11. Understand how and when to use the 3 registers of speech and adjust accordingly
12. Read and write kanji characters (in addition to ones previously learned), understand the meaning of the kanji, and use them accurately within the context of specified words (furigana and okurigana).
