Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

Upon successful completion students should be able to:

1. Apply broader cultural understandings and recognize Japanese cultural values to interact with native speakers of Japanese.
2. Employ an understanding of the Japanese syntactic system to read and compose colloquial Japanese texts in Japanese Kana syllabaries and increased Kanji characters.
3. Use intermediate-level Japanese grammatical structures and vocabulary to acquire information in semi-predictable settings.
4. Use effective communicative skills to interact with native Japanese speakers by managing mid-level formal speech.

Students will be assessed by any combination of the following: 

1. Active participation in class
2. Individual presentations
3. Contextual written tasks (in or outside of class) to assess reading, writing, cultural, and aural competencies, as well as quizzes over syllabaries and Kanji.
4. Oral interviews with partner or instructor
5. In class, interactive student role-plays

Includes all or most of the following: 

 1. Verbs in non-past, mid-level formal speech
 2. Verbs in past, mid-level formal speech
 3. Verbs in non-past, informal speech, affirmative and negative
 4. Polite and humble polite form of nouns.
 5. Self-Introductions in a culturally appropriate manner
 6. Family   
 7. Hobbies and pastimes
 8. Multiple particles in negative statements
 9. Interrogatives with Ka, Mo and Demo
10. Potential forms of verbs
11. Nominalizers: Koto and No
12. Describes progressive
13. Verbs in gerund
14. Personal pronouns and demonstrative pronouns
15. Daily and weekend activities
16. Telephone conversations
17. Invitations in a culturally appropriate manner
18. Conjunctions and disjunctive conjunctions
19. Positional words form of verbs
20. Predicate using the Copula, I-adjectives and Na-adjectives, in past
21. Foods, beverages, flavors, and cooking terms
22. Basic compound verbs using Miru, Shimau, Iku, Kuru
23. Past tense of Verbs with Moo and Mada

Competencies and Skills 

 1. Describes abilities
 2. Describes a change in state
 3. Describes state of being
 4. Recognizes basic linguistic and cultural differences between non-Indo-European and Indo-European worlds.
 5. Describes weather, climate and makes comparisons.
 6. Makes and responds to compliments in a culturally appropriate manner.
 7. Recognizes the concept of in and out group and introduces family members.
 8. Discusses about hobbies and pastimes using family members.
 9. Writes lists and discrete sentences using syllabaries and 80 Kanji.
10. Reads for general meanings in texts using combination of syllabaries and Kanji.
11. Asks questions about the language in Japanese.
12. Recognizes tones and pitches.
13. Writes sentences expressing cause and effects.
14. Describes objects, people, action and events using relative clause
15. Expresses experience
16. Expresses an opinion
17. Expresses a desire and someone’s desire
18. Quotes speech
19. Expresses intention
20. Expresses simultaneous action
21. States decision