Japanese Beginners
Travelling to Japan? Love Japanese food, movies and anime? Going skiing in Japan? Learn essential vocabulary and effective communication tips to enjoy your visit to Japan. This course will help you to appreciate the language and culture even more.
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Tue 15 Feb8 classes, Tue 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Selwyn College, Auckland.
- TEC-subsidised course fee for qualifying students $50.00 incl. GST
- $145.00 incl. GST
Sessions
Session 1
Tue 15 Feb 19:00 - Tue 15 Feb 21:00Selwyn College, Auckland.Session 2
Tue 22 Feb 19:00 - Tue 22 Feb 21:00Selwyn College, Auckland.Session 3
Tue 01 Mar 19:00 - Tue 01 Mar 21:00Selwyn College, Auckland.Session 4
Tue 08 Mar 19:00 - Tue 08 Mar 21:00Selwyn College, Auckland.Session 5
Tue 15 Mar 19:00 - Tue 15 Mar 21:00Selwyn College, Auckland.Session 6
Tue 22 Mar 19:00 - Tue 22 Mar 21:00Selwyn College, Auckland.Session 7
Tue 29 Mar 19:00 - Tue 29 Mar 21:00Selwyn College, Auckland.Session 8
Tue 05 Apr 19:00 - Tue 05 Apr 21:00Selwyn College, Auckland.
Description
Course fees
This course offers a course fee subsidy through funding from the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) for NZ citizen and permanent migrant adults, and young people aged 16+ who are not currently enrolled in a NZ secondary school. We need to collect extra information such as age, ethnicity, educational achievement and gender for statistical purposes. You must also provide evidence of NZ citizenship or residency if requested. A condition of accepting this course fee subsidy is that you will attend at least 80% of classes.
About the course
This course has a focus on oral communication rather than the written language. Japanese will be taught in Romaji (the alphabet). Situations include greetings, shopping, dining out, and asking directions. Each week, new vocabulary will be added. There will be lots of speaking exercises and practise to develop your confidence with spoken Japanese.
On completion of this course you will be able to:
- count in Japanese from 0 to 100,000,000.
- introduce yourself appropriately
- order food and drink
- ask about prices and say the time
- better understand and discuss aspects of Japanese language and culture e.g. bowing
There will be minimal or no homework usually.
In the second level class, the teacher will begin to introduce some Japanese characters such as Hirigana, Katakana and Kanji.
Prerequisites
This course is for adults learning Japanese for the first time. No prior Japanese language is required.
