JAPN 1020 - Beginning Japanese II

7.5 Credits

This course is the second of two sequential quarter courses that comprise a traditional first-year college Japanese course. Students continue to learn basic skills in pronunciation, speaking, listening, reading, writing vocabulary, and comprehension.

Prerequisites: (1) JAPN 1010

Lecture Hours: 7.5
Lab Hours: 0.0
Internship Hours: 0.0
Clinical or Practicum Hours: 0.0

Course Objectives

Use basic, daily Japanese vocabulary.
Respond orally, or in writing, to elementary, “daily” questions.
Understand elementary written passages in Japanese, when these are based on known subjects, vocabulary, or cognates.
Recognize and use te-form and ta-form verbs, both orally and in writing (polite and plain forms/progressive forms).
Recognize and conjugate adjectives into present and past tenses (affirmative/negative, polite/plain forms).
Use te-form of adjectives for linking.
Recognize and use comparatives and superlatives.
Express probability and conjecture.
Explain a reason.
Express abilities, experiences, desires, opinions, and intentions (reru/rareru-form, tai-for, oo-form).
Express with temporal/conditional (tara-form) / quotation clauses.
Report information.

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