Course Description
Equal emphasis on listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Students will learn grammar and 90 Kanji characters. Lessons include Japanese culture notes as well. Not open to native speakers.
Athena Title
Elementary Japanese II
Prerequisite
JPNS 1001
Semester Course Offered
Offered spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
Emphasizes listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Students will learn grammar, Hiragana and Katakana characters, and about 80 Kanji characters. All lessons include Japanese culture notes. Course also includes character recognition and pronunciation exercise sessions.
Topical Outline
Week 1. Verbs: Present perfect tense Week 2. Verbs: Let's/ Shall I...? Week 3. Verbs: te-Form Week 4. Dates Week 5. Family related nouns Week 6. Na-Adjectives Week 7. Something/ Someone/ Somewhere Week 8. Causality: -kara Week 9. Verbs: te-Form (conjoining sentences) Week 10. Adjectives: te-Form (conjoining sentences) Week 11. Particle: -de (Method of doing something) Week 12. Particle: -ni as a receiver Week 13. Counters Week 14. Verbs: -shini (Purpose of doing something) Week 15. Verbs: -teimasu (Continuous action)
General Education Core
CORE IV: World Languages and Global CultureSyllabus