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This course is designed for students with little or no previous knowledge of the Japanese language. At the end of the course, students should be able to understand and actively use basic modern Japanese grammar and vocabulary, and read and write the kana syllabaries, and approximately 150 characters.
The course aims to cultivate skills in all four areas of language acquisition: reading, writing, listening, and speaking, and the texts used are especially designed to develop each of these areas. The course combines traditional instruction with communication-oriented interaction and oral/audio visual exercises in the language laboratory. There are five contact hours per week, with four hours of classroom teaching and one hour in the language lab, which are all mandatory. Classroom work is supported by additional on-line resources.PLEASE NOTE:The timetable may look a bit confusing at this stage. However, the first lecture on Monday 23 February from 1:00-2:00pm is a combined lecture for everyone, in Kirkwood KC07. Therefore please come to this lecture, where we will explain everything about the timetable!
Students will acquire skills in all four areas of the language (reading, writing, speaking and listening), which will become the foundation for developing strategies and skills needed to interact in Japanese. By the end of the course students should: be able to understand and actively use approximately 800 Japanese words and phrases; be able to actively apply basic Japanese grammar and expressions used in simple everyday situations (e.g. greetings, shopping, telling the time, ordering at a restaurant); be able to read and write the kana syllabaries (hiragana and katakana); be able to read and write approximately 150 kanji characters.
RP: This course is designed for students with little or no previous knowledge of the Japanese language
JAPA141, JAPA142, JAPA153, JAPA116
This course is designed for students with little or no previous knowledge of the Japanese language
PLEASE NOTE:The timetable may look a bit confusing at this stage. However, the first lecture on Monday 23 February from 1:00-2:00pm is a combined lecture for everyone, in Kirkwood KC07. Therefore please come to this lecture, where we will explain everything about the timetable!
Masayoshi Ogino
Rachel Payne and Eri Kojima
Eri Banno; Genki: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese Workbook 1 ; 2nd; Japan Times/Tsai Fong Books, 2011.
Eri Banno, Yoko Ideda and Yutaka Ohno; Genki 1: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese ; 2nd; Japan Times/Tsai Fong Books, 2011.
Library portalLEARN The Course Outline is available for enrolled students on LEARN.
Domestic fee $2,090.00
International fee $8,738.00
* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.
This course will not be offered if fewer than 50 people apply to enrol.
For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .