In this class, upper-intermediate level students will improve vocabulary, kanji, keigo and fluency for daily and business Japanese conversation. The class will help students read and understand written materials with specific content concerning everyday topics. Students will also be able to read slightly difficult and long writings encountered in everyday situations and understand the main points of that content.
This 12-week course is for people with JLPT N4 or N3 or equivalent.
Instructor: Mikiyo Hattori, japanese@showaboston.edu
Materials will be provided by the instructor.
What you’ll learn in these 12 sessions:
Expressing suppositions and wondering
Expressing impressions
Describing Action Done or to Be done
Expressing Certainty, Belief
Expressing causes or reasons
Describing changes
Nominalization of sentences (koto)
Passive structures
Expressing purposes, deliberate effects
Describing simultaneous actions
Honorifics expressions (Keigo)
Expressing a lack of obligations
Giving examples of events or actions
Stating decisions
Expressing intentions
Causative and causative passive structure
Leaving and relaying messages
Order structure using planning imperatives
Carry out short conversations at workplaces
Read short notices/letters at workplaces