|
JAPANESE – INTERNATIONAL COURSE
The Language course teaches you through a series of lessons building towards advanced proficiency. As words build to phrases, sentences and dialogues, new vocabulary and sentence construction is integrated in a natural systematic progression.
This Language course, consists of four levels. From these levels you can select the one’s that most suit your needs and requirements.
In this course Japanese is written in the Hepburn Transcription. This course therefore does not teach you the Japanese characters. Learning to write Japanese would take you much longer than learning to speak it.
Explanations are in English, French, German, Dutch, and Spanish.
|
AIMS & OBJECTIVES
|
|
Level I
|
Basic conversational vocabulary of some 500 words and the tenses.
|
|
Level II
|
Basic conversational vocabulary of an additional 500 words. On completion of Levels I and II the student has an active vocabulary of 1000 words and is capable of understanding everyday conversations and of making him self understood, using their tenses correctly.
|
|
Level III
|
Enlarges the active vocabulary by 1000 words and teaches the student to think in the language and to build self confidence. It also enables the student to relate to experiences and discuss a wide variety of topics, creating practical day to day situations, expressing themselves correctly, using idiomatic expressions to enable the student to express feelings of annoyance, pity, astonishment and surprise, confusion, fear, impatience, hope, joy and satisfaction and many more.
|
|
Level IV
|
This level corse requires completion of the corresponding levels 1 to 3. Lessons are entirely written in Japanese characters, except for the new words. Lessons are divided into units in such away that the number of new KANJI symbols is always smaller than 24 per unit. At the end of this course you should be able to read about 600 KANJI symbols. It is about a third of the KANJI symbols which are officially used in Japan today.
|
Written and oral tests are provided at all levels.
Courses take between six and twelve months to complete when spending approximately ½ hour per day 5 days per week.
The Japanese course is available on
· Cassettes and Books,
· Audio CD and Books
|