Beginners Japanese for Adults Course Outline
The Open-Group Beginner Japanese for Adults Course is the ideal way to study this fascinating language online with other eager students from around the world. Learn under the guidance of an expert, native teacher and help each other improve while mastering simple grammar, words, and expressions. Then, as your conversational skills improve, study and practice every day topics, from informal questions to professional greetings, so you can start to enjoy Japanese media, resources, and speakers outside of your lessons.
Lesson 1
You will learn Japanese sounds and the alphabet; greetings; useful expressions: to say thank you/sorry; numbers 1-9; how to introduce yourself and another person; the names of countries, languages, and people
Lesson 2
You will learn to say your profession; numbers 11-19; to ask somebody what they do for a living; A is B (A wa B desu) sentence pattern; to ask what is this/that
Lesson 3
You will learn the numbers 20-99; how to ask somebody’s age and how to say your age; to ask where something is; to tell the location of an item or a person (koko, soko, asoko)
Lesson 4
You will learn useful expressions; about the Japanese currency; how to ask how much something costs; numbers 100-900; to form yes/no questions; the negative form of desu; how to express your preferences
Lesson 5
You will learn to talk about future events; large numbers; noun modifiers and the particle no; verb groups and conjugation; the present and future tense of verbs
Lesson 6
You will learn to ask and give your phone number; time expressions: today, tomorrow, yesterday, etc.; how to form verb sentences; to describe your daily routine
Lesson 7
You will learn how to ask for something at a store; the counting system and counters; to describe what/who is there; to ask what someone has
Lesson 8
You will learn to ask someone to do something; demonstrative adjectives: this one, that one, that one over there (kono-, sono-, ano-); the te-form of verbs
Lesson 9
You will learn to say how often you do something; more about the te-form of verbs; how to ask for and tell the time; adverbs of frequency
Lesson 10
You will learn the past tense of verbs; to say someone is in a certain location; to speak about your family members and pets
* You do not need to buy a textbook to complete your course. Your teacher will share their materials (excerpts from textbooks, audio files, videos, etc.) with you during the classes using screenshare. Your teacher may also recommend other textbooks and grammar books to help supplement or continue your studies, but Language Trainers bears no responsibility for your decision to make such a purchase.
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