Course Description
Equal emphasis on listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Students will learn grammar and about 100 Kanji characters. All lessons include Japanese culture notes as well. Not open to native speakers.
Athena Title
Intermediate Japanese II
Prerequisite
JPNS 2001
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: Ability forms Week 2. Subordinate clause: Indirect questions Week 3. Subordinate clause: -suru maeni/ -shita atode Week 4. Subordinate clause: -toki(ni) Week 5. Conjoining adjectives Week 6. Sentence ending with, –deshoo A wa B ga + adjectival descriptions - yasui/ nikui Week 7. Adjective + sooda, Verb + teiru Week 8. Adjective + suru/ naru, Contraction –teru, Verb + teirutokoroda Week 9. Particle -ni/ de/ o, ndakara/ ndesukara Week 10. Verb + temoii Week 11. A - nanka doodesuka. Conjunction –shi Week 12. Introduction to Male/ Female speech, Contraction -toku (-teoku) Week 13. Verb: ageru/ kureru/ morau, Conjunction –to Week 14. Verb + ba iija arimasenka -Verb + temo iidesu/ kamaimasen (Permission) -Verb + tewa ikemasen/ damedesu (Prohibition) -Verb + tahooga/ naihooga iidesu (Advice) Week 15. Subordinate clause: -made, -Exclamation: -na(a)
General Education Core
CORE IV: World Languages and Global CultureSyllabus