Japanese Language and Culture, Level 2 - Elementary.
Tutor: Motoko Okina
Date and time: Tuesdays 7:15 - 8:30pm
From: Tuesday 1st October 2024
24 weekly meetings, 1 hour 15 minutes each
Price £300 (£290 concessions*)
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Detailed Description
A course for those moving on from a beginners' course, for those whose knowledge is rusty or those who may not feel confident to go forward to an intermediate course. The emphasis is on speaking and understanding, but grammatical structures will be learned and some reading and writing skills will be developed. A course book is sometimes used to allow you to work on your own and to form a framework for your learning. The course aims to give those moving on from a beginners' class more confidence to deal with everyday situations. You will be encouraged to work out your own strategy for learning and, within the framework of the syllabus, learn to use language structures and functions to suit your own needs - for example, very basic business/academic language.
Everyday situations to be developed include: Personal information - family/social arrangements • Directions - time/numbers • Travel/transport • food and drink/ buying and selling • Accommodation - hotel/lodgings/business • Holidays and leisure.
Grammar and functions revised are: • articles • present tense of common regular/irregular verbs • negatives • questions • descriptions • adjectives • personal pronouns • polite/familiar forms • prepositions • possessives • idea of future • one main past tense • time phrases/quantities.
New grammar and functions include: comparative/superlative forms • adverbs • future forms • other past tenses.
You will be encouraged to learn Japanese scripts (Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji) and will be given an insight into the culture of the country within the framework of your language studies. You will be encouraged to work out your own strategy for study in line with the syllabus and your own perceived needs. There will be an opportunity to study personal cultural interests linked to the language.
