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Japanese IV |
- What is the value of learning a modern language?
- How do Japanese cultural values compare with your own?
- How will I handle communicating in Japanese at my level of knowledge of the language?
- How are history and tradition reflected in the customs and systems of contemporary Japanese society?
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- Approximately 50 new kanji
- Use of kanji in a variety of contextualized reading and writing tasks
- Communication strategies with a limited range of vocabulary and grammatical structures
- Basic Japanese sentence construction: verb, adjective and noun predicate sentences
- Geography of Japan and major Japanese cities
- Customs and cultural norms
- Current happenings in Japan
- Japanese family
- Study techniques to learn and practice both oral and written language
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- Converse in a variety of basic communicative tasks and social situations using the casual and formal forms of language
- Demonstrate comprehension of longer sentences and utterances
- Read consistently and with full understanding an intermediate-level text
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- Papers, test, skits, interview
- Weekly vocabulary and kanji quizzes
- Unit tests
- End of term oral proficiency interviews and written tests
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Situational Functional Japanese, Drills & Notes, Volume 2, Tsukuba Language Group
Daily TV news, drama, and movies viewed without subtitles |
- Increasing cultural awareness of both Japan and the United States is also a focus
- Differences in food between America, Japan and other countries
- Learning about lives of people in Japan through short cultural readings, internet research, and movies
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