Japanese: Level 1

Service Description

This course is for absolute beginners! Lessons will take place on Mondays and Fridays at 6pm Mountain Time on Zoom. Mandy will be your teacher on Mondays, and Ritomo will be your teacher on Fridays. Lessons will run for 1 hour. We want our students to become good speakers, so please be ready to verbally participate in class! Our lessons will be recorded and posted after class, so that anyone who missed class can watch the lesson afterwards. The intensity of our class is medium. We designed the course to be accessible for busy people. We expect students to spend about 1-2 hours per class on homework assignments, vocabulary memorization, Japanese letter learning, etc. to keep up with our pace. All of our materials are written in Japanese, so you must learn how to read the Japanese alphabet (This will help your pronunciation a lot!). We will provide written feedback on all submitted student homework between classes. Here is what you will be learning in the course! Week One - Introduction to the Japanese writing system - Begin learning the Hiragana alphabet Week Two - Finish learning Hiragana - Japanese greetings Week Three - Greetings practice - Self introductions Week Four - Essential vocabulary for talking about yourself - Counting 1-100 Week 5 - Making basic sentences - Making question sentences - Telling the time - Talking about ages Week 6 - Learning about particle の - Talking about your job/school/hobbies Week 7 - Create a long self introduction - Ask people about themselves - Read a short story Week 8 - New vocabulary, focused on shopping and ordering - Begin Katakana alphabet Week 9 - Counting to 90,000 - Asking about prices - This, that, and that over there. - Continue the Katakana alphabet Week 10 - Here, there, and way over there. - "Who's" - Particle も Week 11 - using じゃない for negation - Ordering food Week 12 - Continue to work on ordering food - Convenience store interactions If you have any questions or concerns about this course, please do not hesitate to contact us!