2-year Course Curriculum
Months on Commencement | From April | From October | From June |
Course Periods | 6 months | 9 months | 9 months |
Levels | Beginner | Intermediate | Advanced |
Main Textbooks | Minna no Nihongo (Japanese for All),Beginners I, II | Tema Betsu Chukyuu Kara Manabu Nihongo (Japanese from the Intermediate Level by Theme) | Academic Japanese, Other Teaching Materials |
Oral Expression | ・Greetings, everyday conversation ・Expressions using basic sentence patterns | ・Attitudinal expressions in accordance with the situation ・Presentations of personal opinion summaries ・Understanding expressions in general conversation | ・Understanding expressions in general conversation ・Speeches, debates and research presentations |
Hearing | ・Differentiating between phonemes ・Comprehending lessons already learned and required information | ・Conversations including unlearned sentence patterns and vocabulary ・Comprehending required information from monologues | ・Understanding all types of live information (television, monologues during speeches, etc.) |
Reading | ・Understanding basic sentences ・Comprehending and gaining an overall understanding of basic sentences | ・Comprehending and understanding character and sentence structures ・Careful reading and swift reading of long passages and summarizing long passages | ・Understanding sentences with varied content and different formats ・Understanding newspaper articles, novels, etc. |
Essay Composition | ・Essays composed with basic sentence patterns ・Composing essays on oneself | ・Learning essay structural skills ・Composing essays on individuals and general subjects | ・Composing essays on specific subjects, writing short essays and reports, entering Japanese on personal computers |
Sentence Patterns & Grammar | ・Use of conjugated words,postpositional particle functions ・Basic sentence patterns / Polite and normal styles | ・Level 2 function words ・Use of appropriate postpositional particles / Contracted forms ・Using sentence patterns that conform to expressional intentions | ・Level 1 function words Expressional forms in conversation ・Using sentence patterns that conform to expressional intentions |
Vocabulary | ・Level 3 vocabulary ・Understanding native Japanese words and Chinese words | ・Understanding native Japanese words and Chinese words ・Level 2 vocabulary and function words ・Onomatopoeic words, mimetic words, conjunctions, compound verbs | ・Idioms ・Advanced level vocabulary and function words ・Proverbs, synonyms, four-character idiomatic compounds ・Technical terms by subject |
Kanji Ideographs | ・Hiragana . Katakana ・Kanji up until Level 3 (approximately 500 characters) | ・Kanji up until Level 2 (approximately 1,000 characters) | ・Kanji up until Level 1 (approximately 1,900 characters) |
Pronunciation | ・Pronunciation at the word level / Pronunciation at the special syllable level ・Pronunciation at the sentence level and conversational level (accent, intonation, prominence) |