Japanese Beginners Summer Intensive (Year 1)

Topics covered

Introduction; numbers, dates and times; nationalities and occupations; working in/ visiting a company; shopping; travelling; daily routine and the weekend; at a tempura restaurant; invitations; participating in a festival; plans; getting about in a city; area and location; visit to an art museum; at a party

Grammatical structures

Sentences using 'to be'; various particles; word order; form of verbs according to positive & negative statement as well as in the future & past tense; interrogative nouns (nani,doko,itsu,dare); adjectives; type of verbs and verb conjugation; Te form + kudasai; modal verbs (Te form + mo iidesu ka); imperative (Nai form + de kudasai); present continuous (Te form + imasu); verb 'want' + infinitive (Watashi wa verb-tai desu).

Learning objectives

o Greeting people
o Introducing yourself
o Describing things
o Describing locations
o Shopping
o Asking and telling the time
o Asking and telling telephone numbers
o Talking about your daily routine
o Talking about your week-end
o Reading and writing Hiragana
o Becoming familiar with some aspects of Japanese culture
o Using basic greetings when visiting people and receiving guests
o Receiving hospitality
o Giving compliments
o Expressing gratitude
o Ordering food at a restaurant
o Praising someone's possessions/ talk about your own
o Making a telephone call
o Talking about schedules in detail
o Reading and writing Katakana
o Being familiar with some aspects of Japanese culture
o Being introduced to someone
o Responding to an inquiry
o Being warned or advised
o Giving directions to a taxi driver
o Talking about getting on and off means of transportation
o Talking about lengths of staying
o Asking about travelling time
o Asking permission to do something/ ask someone not to do something
o Talking about what you are doing now
o Talking about where you live
o Like and dislike
o Expressing what you want to do
o Reading and writing very basic Kanji