The module is designed for students who have completed Japanese IV to develop their intermediate knowledge of Japanese. It aims to reinforce students’ reading, writing, speaking and listening at an intermediate level for social, commercial purposes, especially in the practical use of honorific expressions.
Students are able to carry out conversations include Japanese Cultures which are useful in the communication to Japanese people. The module also introduces different simple rhetoric structures like lyric or literary work.
Upon completion of this module, students should have acquired mastery of almost all basic contemporary and some intermediate contemporary Japanese grammar and 1000 vocabularies, finished the level N4 and reach an elementary level of N3.
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Culture: Learning classes round Japanese community.
Skills: Learning the polite form when the giver is inferior or superior to the recipient.
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Culture: Ideal jobs of Japanese people
Skills: Using the concept of “In order to” to to do a description such as
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Culture: Personality of Japanese people
Skills: Classifying different uses on “sou” and “you” such as
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Culture: Japanese literary work (1)
Skills: Learning how to describe the degree or property when a verb is Combining with
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Culture: Japanese literary work (2)
Skills: Showing a prediction or contradictory conjunction between 2 actions or 1 action and 1 emotion.
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Culture: Japanese onomatopoeia and mimetic word
Skills: Learning how to say an action in a causative verb form.
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Culture: Lyrics
Skills: Learning how to use a Honorific expression in an appropriate manner.
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Culture: How to make a phone call to a Japanese company.
Skills: Learning how to use a Humble expression in an appropriate manner.
