Resource Guide for Japanese teachers and students
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Intermediate Level Japanese: Course Content

Skills:

  • Public speech
  • Research
  • Presentation
  • Expressing abstract ideas
  • Discussion
  • Interview
  • Free conversation
  • Natural conversation
  • Use of proper adverbs and conjunctions
  • Use of kanji dictionary
Materials:
  • Self introduction
  • Writing letters (seasonal letters, New Year’s card, invitation, thank-you note, response)
  • Journal
  • Saying
  • Haiku
  • Resume
  • Old tales
  • Short novels, essays
  • Newspaper and magazine articles
  • Videos (TV dramas, commercials, variety shows)

* Sample Reading

Themes:
  • Japanese society (housing situation, transportation)
  • Japanese culture (Japanese food, events and holidays, traditional arts)
  • Japanese cooperate system
  • Women’s issues
  • Aging society
  • Education
  • International relations
  • Foreign people in Japan
 

Created by: Cathleen Chuang, '07 || Created in: July 8, 2005 || Expires: July 2006
Maintained by: Yoshimi Maeno || Last updated: August 12, 2005