CULTURE COURSES
5 B1-2 Intermediate Japanese Topic A
Develop skills to communicate with confidence and express thoughts on a variety of subjects such as one’s personality and making plans for a day-trip with friends. This class is suitable for those who can exchange information and express opinions on familiar topics, can write about events, experiences, and feelings with a certain degree of detail and read and understand approximately 500 kanji.
[Prerequisite]
You are expected to:
– be able to use a wide range of simple language to deal with most situations likely to arise while traveling, and enter unprepared into conversation on familiar topics.
– be able to express personal opinions and exchange information on topics that are familiar, of personal interest or pertinent to everyday life.
– be able to recognize significant points in straightforward newspaper articles, blog entries etc. on familiar subjects.
– be able to compose a piece of writing such as a blog entry describing events, experiences, and feelings with a certain degree of detail.
– be able to use grammar patterns associated with everyday situations reasonably accurately.
– be able to read and understand approximately 500 kanji and related vocabulary used in everyday context
[Goals]
Upon successful completion of this class, you will be able to:
– interact on such topics as someone’s personality, plan for a trip, etc.
– read and understand the main points of authentic texts such as community newsletters, sightseeing guides on website, etc.
– write sentences such as emails, blog entries, etc. including some detail.
– read and understand approximately 50 kanji characters and related words covered by the topics
| Lecturer |
Yoko Sakurai
Ms. Sakurai received her MA in Applied Linguistics and Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language from Ochanomizu University in Tokyo. She is accredited by the “Society for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language” in Japan. She taught Japanese in Tokyo from 2002 to 2006, and since 2007 she has been a Japanese lecturer at institutions in NY, including Hunter College, Fashion Institute of Technology, The New School, Pace University, and other private language schools. She has been teaching at The Nippon Club since January 2012, when we launched as The JF Japanese Language Course, which was provided collaboratively by The Japan Foundation and The Nippon Club. She is a certified American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Oral Proficiency Interview (ACTFL OPI) tester. |
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| Lesson fee | $400 10 lessons (textbook fee $ 40) |
B1-2 Intermediate Japanese Topic A (Monday) 18:30～20:30
| Schedule | 2019/9/9, 9/16, 9/23, 9/30, 10/7, 10/21, 10/28, 11/4, 11/18, 11/25 |
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