Description
Japanese Language and Culture, Level 3 - Intermediate.
Tutor: Motoko Okina
Date and time: Mondays, 6:00 - 7:15pm
From: Monday 6th October 2025
24 weekly meetings, 1 hour 15 minutes each
Price £345 (£315 concessions*)
*If you are a full-time student, staff or alumni at the University of Sussex or not in full-time employment (benefits, unemployed, retired) or an NHS worker you are entitled to the £300 concession rate. Please make sure you specify this by typing the reduced price into the 'price' box before you add the course to your shopping basket.
Terms & Conditions - https://www.sussex.ac.uk/study/short-courses/language-short-courses/terms-and-conditions
Detailed Description
A course for those who have completed an elementary level 2 class and who feel reasonably at home with spoken Japanese and the written forms hiragana, katakana and basic kanji. You will probably have completed at least two years of part-time study.
The intermediate class aims to build upon students’ knowledge of basic language structures and functions to encourage learners to express themselves more freely in everyday situations. They are encouraged to develop their own learning strategies towards developing language structures and functions for self-perceived needs and interests; but within the framework of the syllabus. In addition to revision and consolidation of topics of earlier courses, this syllabus expands into new considerations.
You are expected to be a confident reader and writer of Japanese hiragana and Katakana. You will be encouraged to read Japanese scripts which include Kanji.
| Activities: | Pair work · Individual work · Group discussions · Role plays · Presentations · Audio/ video materials |
| Topic areas: | There will be more work on everyday situations and also -
Japan Today · Work and Leisure · Travel · Cultural aspects |
| Grammar and functions: | More advanced adjectival forms · Strategies for reading and writing · Expressing opinions · Tenses (dictionary forms, past perfect) |
You will be given an insight into the culture and history of the country within the framework of your language studies. You will have the opportunity to pursue your own personal research into a topic of cultural interest which contains some analysis or debate.
