Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

Upon completion of the course students should be able to:

1. Read and recognize some words, phrases and simple sentences that are written in Japanese.
2. Write words, phrases and simple sentences about a limited number of familiar topics.
3. Speak about a limited number of familiar topics using practiced or memorized words and phrases.
4. Listen and recognize familiar and memorized words in spoken Japanese.
5. Recognize some Japanese cultural products and practices related to everyday life.

Students will be assessed by any combination of the following:

• Active participation in class

• Individual presentations

• Contextual written tasks to assess reading, writing, cultural, and  listening competencies 

• Quizzes over syllabaries and Kanji

• Oral interviews with partner or instructor

Include all or most of the following:

1. Greetings, introductions and leave-takings

2. Age, birth month, and nationality

3. Japanese names

4. Time, weather, telephone numbers and price

5. Academic subjects and majors

6. Verbs in non-past Masu-form

7. Verbs in past Masu-form

8. Native Japanese and Sino-Japanese numbers

9. Single particles

10. Predicate using the copula (desu) in past and non-past tense

11. Interrogatives

12. Personal pronouns and demonstrative pronouns

13. Daily activities, and likes and dislikes.

14. Formulates simple questions and answers

15. Existence for animate and inanimate objects and locations

16. Reads and writes Hiragana and Katakana syllabaries

17. Reads and understands approximately 30 Kanji