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Prerequisite for entry
Successful completion of level 4+
Term duration
10 x 2-hour classes.
Aims and objectives
The aim of the course is to enable students to communicate in a wide range of daily situations and understand Japanese in many practical issues. Students will be given a wide range of topics to discuss in the classroom. A large volume of written texts after their abilities of reading and writing are used during lessons.? Cultural awareness and knowledge of Japanese life style will be further developed during the course.
Functions
- Accepting or refusing an invitation
- Describing a person or thing with details
- Giving requirements
- Responding to some misunderstanding
- Providing or receiving a proposal
- Giving apologies after receiving a complaint? ?
Course content
Main topics/themes to be covered:
- Saving
- Protecting the earth
- Ideal partner
- Emergency situations
- Discipline
- How to make a formal telephone call
- How to write a formal letter
Linguistic structures/ Phonetics
Sophisticated rules of the pronunciation of Spoken Japanese.
Grammar
- ‵卅仁化反卅日卅中/中仃卅中﹜‵卅仁化手井引歹卅中
- ‵卅仁切扎/‵卅五扎ㄗ中仃卅中ㄘ
- ＃分仃分?ㄗ凶分ㄘ＃ 分仃匹中中
- ＃井卅 (sentence-final particle)
- ‵丐中分﹜‵丐中分卞﹜＃..
- ‵引匹﹜＃?‵引匹卞﹜＃..
- ‵凶‵ (noun modifier)
- ‵卞方勻化＃
- 云‵引允匹允
- ‵化手井引歹卅中
- ＃幻升‵卅中﹜＃幻升匹反卅中 (comparison)
- ＃反內分
- ＃反內互 / 反卅中
- ＃反內分勻凶
- ‵化仁月?‵化中仁 (change)
- ‵凶日ㄗ升丹ㄘˋ
- ＃方曰?? ＃ 幻丹互＃ (comparison)
- ‵日仄中 (reported speech / conjecture)
- ＃手及/手氏分井日
- ‵ㄗ日ㄘ木月(indirect passive: Transitive verbs)
- ‵凶曰‵凶曰
- ‵勻天卅仄
- ＃云井仆匹﹜＃? ＃云井仆分
- 犖趼ㄗ井氏元ㄘ
Learning resources
Books
- Course book: Minna no Nihongo (Chukyu:Intermediate Level 1) (Lesson 7 每 Lesson 12)? published by 3A Corporation
- Other material: Minna no Nihongo Translation & Grammatical Notes (Chukyu:Intermediate Level 1) (Lesson 7 每 Lesson 12)? published by 3A Corporation
- Intermediate Kanji Book (Kanji 1000 plus) Published by Bonjinsha Co.,Ltd
Useful websites
In addition there is a wide range of language learning materials for self-study in the .
