This 12-week course concentrates on improving communicative skills in Japanese; more advanced grammar and better writing and reading kanji and sentences, and improving spoken fluency. It is targeted toward those who have completed 2-C, or a similar class, and covers lessons 1-5 of Japanese for Busy People, Book 3
Instructor: Mikiyo Hattori, japanese@showaboston.edu
Required Materials: Japanese for Busy People, Book 3
(Textbooks are NOT provided for you by Showa Boston.)
What you’ll learn in these 12 sessions:
· Expressing suppositions & Wondering aloud
· Conveying information gained elsewhere
· Expressing certainty and impressions
· Expressing ideas that run contrary to the explanation
· Expressing causes of or reasons for situations
· Nominalizing sentences
· Describing deliberate effects
· Expressing purpose
· Expressing completion/Incompletions of past, present, or future actions
· Describing simultaneous actions