Japanese 2

2nd year high school Japanese  or 2nd semester of 1st year college level Japanese 

  • Class hours: Approx. 75 hours
     Majority of time is spent synchronously with live teacher-student instruction with additional on-demand instructional   videos.
  • Recommended college credit: 5 semester hours
  • Prerequisite: Japanese 1 or equivalent
Course Objectives and Description

Japanese 2 is designed for beginners to establish a foundation necessary to move up to intermediate Japanese levels. This course emphasizes on improving conversation skills, including pronunciation and the Japanese writing systems; Kanji.

At the end of the course a student will be able to:

In addition to Japanese 1,

  • Read and write 99 Kanji, a total of 165 Kanji in Japanese 1-2
  • Vocabulary - 479 words, a total of 630 words in Japanese 1-2
  • Tell the location of a thing or a person
  • Give directions, make a request
The original digital textbook by KCP Japan will be used.


Existence
       Asoko ni konbini ga arimasu
       Gakko no chikaku ni konbini ga arimasu


Duration. Counter suffix. Frequency.
       Ringo ga hitotsu arimasu
       Mainichi san-jikan nihongo wo benkyoo shimasu
       I-shuukan ni go-kai nihongo wo benkyoo shimasu
       Amerika kara nihon made hikooki de juuyo-jikan kakarimasu


Verb: Dictionary form
       ~ koto ga dekimasu
       ~ koto desu
       ~ mae ni, ~


TE-form
        ~ te imasu (1. progressive)
                    Ima hon wo yonde imasu
       ~ te kudasai (request)
       ~ te, ~ (link two actions)
       ~ te kara, ~ (order)
       ~ te imasu. (2. current state)
                    Tokyo ni sunde imasu
       ~ te imasu (3. continuous)
                    Resutoran de hataraite imasu
       ~ te imasu (4. habit)
       ~ te mo ii desu ka (permission)
       ~ te wa ikemasen (prohibition)



Adjectives 4 - Past tense


Comparison expressions
Describing two adjectives
          … no hoo ga … yori ~, dochira ga ~, ichiban ~
         Tokyo wa hito ga ooi desu


Verb: Masu-form
       ~ mashooka
       … e ~ ni ikimasu



Negative TE-form
       ~ naide kudasai
       ~ nakereba narimasen.


Action is finished.
       Mou ~ mashita


TA-form
       ~ ta koto ga arimasu (experience)
       ~ tari, ~ tari shimasu (special predicate form)

Weekly Schedule
for Japanese 2