Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

Upon completion  of the course students should be able to:

1. Read and understand the main topic and flow of events in straightforward paragraph-length texts written in Japanese.

2. Write a few short paragraphs, often across various time frames about familiar topics and situations.

3. Speak about a variety of familiar topics and situations using a series of connected sentences and a number of follow up questions.

4. Listen and understand the main idea and flow of events in conversations and short discussions in Japanese.

5. Discuss differences between one’s own cultures and Japanese cultural products, practices and perspectives.

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. Express gratitude

2. Talk about things we are glad we did or were supposed to be the case

3. Express what is easy and difficult to do

4. Asking for instructions

5. Giving respectful advice

6. Expressing that an action takes place when another action is happening

7. Changing state

8. Describing what we want others to do

9. Honorific verbs/structure

10. Humble verbs and extra modest expressions/structures

11. Passive verbs/structure

12. Causative verbs/structure

13. Read, write and understand Kana syllabaries and approximately 300 Kanji