Japanese Fundamentals 3

Course Description

This course is a continuation of Japanese Fundamentals 2 and designed for beginning level to lower-intermediate learners who understands the hiragana system and have some basic understanding of the Japanese language. The course focuses on practicing common expressions useful to describe daily activities and future plans, while also learning basic structures of verbs and verb sentences. The course will also introduce useful particles and continue reviewing and practicing basic particles from previous classes. Prior knowledge of hiragana and katakana is required to take this course.

Learning Objectives

Through this course, students will be able to:

Demonstrate familiar and basic expressions and phrases.
Demonstrate a variety of greetings useful in daily conversations.
Demonstrate sharing daily activities, future plans, and past events
Examine 15 essential particles, conjunctive particles and the kara (から）particles
Examine basic sentence structures, particularly verb sentences and create original simple sentences.
Demonstrate asking questions about when, where, who, what and why (いつ、どこで、だれが、なにを、なぜ）.
Examine some practices, beliefs and attitudes that characterize Japanese culture.

Prerequisites

While taking Japanese Fundamentals 2 is highly recommended before taking Japanese Class 3, it is not a requirement. However, students should have some basic understanding of the following:

Hiragana Characters (Ideally also katakana)
The function of desu (です) in a sentence.
Noun and adjective sentence structures.
Adjective structures (い adj vs. な adj and basic conjugation)
Particles: ka (か）wa（は）ga（が）wo（を）mo（も） to（と）,
How to ask a simple question: Korewa nandesuka? （これは　なんですか。）
Demonstrative Pronouns: Kore/Sore/Are（これ・それ・あれ）Kono/Sono/Ano (この・その・あの）
Understanding of Plain form vs. Polite form

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